Rural mechanisation: a review of processes, policies, practice and literature

Open Access
Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
This paper reviews the agricultural and rural mechanisation literature and the experiences of developing countries with mechanisation projects, programmes and policies. It identifies different types of analysis and establishes areas of research that have had emphasis in the past and where new types of research are needed. Despite the availability of a considerable literature, institutional analysis has been marginalised at both the practical and the theoretical or academic level. Reasons for the omission of institutional analysis are suggested, a dynamic, interactive model of mechanisation processes is developed, a set of multiple criteria for the assessment and evaluation of rural mechanisation are established and the policy implications of the above are examined.