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Selection of appropriate mechanization to achieve sustainability for smallholder farms: a review

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Agricultural Machinery and power Engineering.

Abstract

Smallholding farms spread throughout the world, and they consider the cornerstone of agriculture production in Africa and Asia. Smallholder farms produce over 80 % of the food used in most of the developing countries. However, smallholder farmers face many problems, including the lack of appropriate mechanization (AM), labor shortage, increase wages, climate change, and poor access to modern inputs, credit, and markets. The paper focuses on analyzing and proposing the criteria to select and design AM for smallholder farmers through the linkage between farm size, machine scale, and productivity. The machine designers and manufacturers should take some environmental and social implications and machinery support services into consideration to deliver AM to smallholder. The adoption of AM with appropriate planting systems such as CA will ensure sustainability in the production of smallholder farmers. The adherence to these standards with overcoming smallholding challenges will lead to growth and sustainability for smallholder farmers.

DOI

10.21608/azeng.2022.252902

Keywords

Smallholder farmers, Appropriate mechanization, Sustainability, Climate Change, Conservation agriculture, Smart management, Small machines

Authors

First Name

H.

Last Name

Sayed

MiddleName

A. A.

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Machinery and power Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

hassan2712@azhar.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-3174-5801

First Name

Q

Last Name

Ding

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Affiliation

College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University/Key Laboratory of Intelligent Agricultural Equipment of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, 210031, China.

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First Name

A.

Last Name

Odero

MiddleName

J.

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Egerton University, Kenya

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First Name

T.

Last Name

Korohou

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-

Affiliation

College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University/Key Laboratory of Intelligent Agricultural Equipment of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, 210031, China.

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Volume

3

Article Issue

1

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35994

Issue Date

2022-06-01

Receive Date

2022-05-05

Publish Date

2022-06-01

Page Start

52

Page End

60

Print ISSN

2805-2765

Online ISSN

2805-2803

Article File

AZENG_Volume 3_Issue 1_Pages 52-60.pdf

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https://azeng.journals.ekb.eg/article_252902.html

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2,115

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Publication Title

Al-Azhar Journal of Agricultural Engineering

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https://azeng.journals.ekb.eg/

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Selection of appropriate mechanization to achieve sustainability for smallholder farms: a review

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Created At

23 Jan 2023