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A cotton picker at work. The first successful models were introduced in the mid-1940s and each could do the work of 50 hand pickers. Mechanised agriculture or agricultural mechanization is the use of machinery and equipment, ranging from simple and basic hand tools to more sophisticated, motorized equipment and machinery, to perform agricultural operations. [1]
After his studies Temesgen returned to Ethiopia. He worked as researcher for 15 years. From 1997 until 2001 he also coordinated the National Agricultural Mechanization Research Program. [3] From 2002 until 2006 Temesgen worked on his PhD at UNESCO-IHE [6] and at the department of Water Resources of the TU Delft, Netherlands. [3]
Intensive crop farming is a modern industrialized form of crop farming.Intensive crop farming's methods include innovation in agricultural machinery, farming methods, genetic engineering technology, techniques for achieving economies of scale in production, the creation of new markets for consumption, patent protection of genetic information, and global trade.
AGRA, formerly known as the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa is an African-led African-based organization that seeks to catalyse Agriculture Transformation in Africa. AGRA is focused on putting smallholder farmers at the centre of the continent's growing economy by transforming agriculture from a solitary struggle to survive into farming ...
Agricultural engineering, also known as agricultural and biosystems engineering, is the field of study and application of engineering science and designs principles for agriculture purposes, combining the various disciplines of mechanical, civil, electrical, food science, environmental, software, and chemical engineering to improve the efficiency of farms and agribusiness enterprises [1] as ...
Together with Prabdhu Pingali and Yves Bigot, Binswanger also investigated patterns of agricultural mechanization and the evolution of farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting that many technological failures were due to mismatches between technological strategies, farming systems and countries endowments of land, labour and climate.
The Green Revolution, or the Third Agricultural Revolution, was a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw greatly increased crop yields. [1] [2] These changes in agriculture began in developed countries in the early 20th century and spread globally until the late 1980s. [3]
This project is dedicated to both the restoration of forests and agricultural land and the implementation of sustainable technologies and practices moving forward. [28] Another project addressing climate change is Scaling up Climate Resilient Rice Production in West Africa initiated in 2021. [27]