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Uptake of scale-appropriate agricultural machinery in Bangladesh : (Record no. 57067)

MARC details
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fixed length control field 03654nam a22003257a 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 57067
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field MX-TxCIM
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20240802225343.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mottaleb, K.A.
Miscellaneous information Formerly Socioeconomics Program
-- Formerly Sustainable Agrifood Systems
Field link and sequence number I1706152
9 (RLIN) 810
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Uptake of scale-appropriate agricultural machinery in Bangladesh :
Remainder of title policy insights from historical and census survey analyses
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Bangladesh :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. CIMMYT :
-- USAID :
-- CSISA-MI,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2015.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 44 pages :
Other physical details ill.
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Research Report ;
Volume/sequential designation 3
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Open Access
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In response to calls for increased crop intensification and technological options that alleviate labour and drudgery constraints in agriculture, donors and policy makers in South Asia increasingly advocate agricultural machinery appropriate for smallholder farmers' landholdings. When carefully utilized, 'scale-appropriate' machinery has the potential to boost returns to land and labour, and alleviate the sometimes substantial funds required for machinery investment that can exclude smallholders from purchase and ownership - especially where subsidies are not offered. Expanding demand among farmers for mechanized planting, irrigation, harvest, and post-harvest equipment has however resulted in popular systems of rural machinery services provision, whereby smallholders access machines through cost-effective fee-for-service arrangements. Such systems are especially prominent in Bangladesh, although the extent of rural mechanization markets are still not comprehensive. As such, a substantial number of farmers could still benefit from increased access. To help prioritize investments in development efforts focussed on scale-appropriate machinery, donors and policy makers require information explaining what influences farmers to purchase machinery and provide services to other farmers as clients. This research addresses this need, by using census data from 814,058 Bangladeshi farm households (HHs) collected by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics surveyed in 2008. We applied a multinomial probit model estimation approach to identify the factors that are related to ownership of agricultural machinery, inclusive of HH characteristics and assets, as well as proximity and relation to institutional and civil infrastructural variables, to examine the ownership of irrigation pumps, threshers, and two-wheel tractor driven power-tillers. In addition to household asset ownership, credit availability, and electrification, we found that road density also significantly and positively affects machinery ownership in rural Bangladesh. We therefore suggest that donors and policy makers should focus not only on short-term projects aimed at increasing adoption of machinery or in improvement of machinery value chains; rather, sustained emphasis on improving regional physical and civil infrastructure appears to also be prerequisite to create an enabling environment for expansion of scale-appropriate farm machinery, and as such should also receive policy and donor prioritization.
536 ## - FUNDING INFORMATION NOTE
Text of note Socioeconomics Program
536 ## - FUNDING INFORMATION NOTE
Text of note Conservation Agriculture Program
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note Text in English
594 ## - STAFFID
StaffID I1706152
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StaffID INT3222
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
9 (RLIN) 1955
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Farm equipment
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
9 (RLIN) 1957
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Intensification
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
9 (RLIN) 1956
Geographic name South Asia
Miscellaneous information AGROVOC
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Krupnik, T.J.
Miscellaneous information Sustainable Intensification Program
-- Sustainable Agrifood Systems
Field link and sequence number INT3222
9 (RLIN) 906
856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10883/4617
Link text Open Access through DSpace
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Report
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Date last seen Total Checkouts Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Withdrawn status Home library Current library Date acquired
10/28/2015   10/28/2015 Report Not Lost Dewey Decimal Classification     CIMMYT Publications Collection   CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library 10/28/2015

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