Basic Knowledge in Agriculture #46

Greetings to all great agriculturists of this group, happy new month to you all, I'm @destinedhanik from Nigeria and today, I'll be talking about mechanized farming. As we all know, farming has been made easier and more enjoyable. I believe you will learn one or two things from me today. Mechanized farming is the use of advanced equipment like bulldozer, trencher, irrigation systems, harvesters, tractors, etc to perform difficult or tasking farm work.

In the olden days, traditional methods and tools like hoe, matcher, shovels, watering cans were used for farming which took a lot of time and effort but mechanized farming has made farming easier and more enjoyable. When mechanized farming is applied in a farm, planting, harvesting and processing of crops becomes more efficient.

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Mechanized farming has lots of importance bit few will be discussed.

• With the sophisticated equipments used in mechanized farming, more productivity is achieved at a short period of time compared to even manual labour is used.

• It leads to reduced labour costs as machines are used rather than workers which will demand more money for paying of the workers.

• Farming which was always seen as tasking is more enjoyable, efficient and easier with mechanized farming.

• Mechanized farming leads to more food productivity and low cost of food prices in the economy as much will be achieved in a short period thereby leading to abundance of food in a nation.

• Mechanized farming serves as a means of creating new entrepreneurial opportunities in the economy as jobs are created as people would be needed to handle the sophisticated equipments.

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• With mechanized farming, farm work is made more pleasant and less toiling.

• Tasks are completed more quickly with machines compared to when humans are used as labourers.

• Farm income is doubled or tripled or increased compared to when traditional methods are used.

• With mechanized farming, time and energy is served

• The land is used in a better way with mechanized farming.

• Job opportunities are provided especially for people who can handle the sophisticated machines.

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• Mechanized farming leads to destruction of the soil structure and even erosion because of the heavy equipments used on the soil.

• Low income farmers may not be able to afford the equipments as they are quite expensive to purchase and maintain.

• Mechanized farming leads to Bob abd labour displacement as some people will be out of work due to the fact that machines are used instead of workers.

• Mechanized farming leads to pollution of the environment due to the fuels and chemicals used on the equipment.

• It requires skilled workers as some workers may not be able to handle or used the tools or equipments.

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