TY  - REP
AU  - Sukharomana,S.
TI  - Domestic resource cost of agricultural mechanization in Thailand:  a case study of small rice farms in Supanburi
SN  - 971-104-082-4
U1  - 85-105886 
PY  - 1983///
KW  - Equipment
KW  - Farm organization and management
KW  - Machinery and equipment general
KW  - Rice oryza
KW  - Thailand
N1  - 9 tables; 6 ref. Summary (En)
N2  - Farm mechanization, especially expansion of labor-displacing technologies for rice production, reduces the use of domestic resources and increases the demand for imported inputs such as fuel, oil, engines, and spare parts. The effects of farm mechanization on the domestic resource cost of earning a net unit of foreign exchange from rice production are less than the effects of yield and the opportunity cost of land. Mechanization has a tendency to generate profits for society even though the demand for imports of machinery-related items is increased
T2  - International Rice Research Inst., Los Banos, Laguna (Philippines); Agricultural Development Council, New YorK (USA). Consequences of small-farm mechanization. Los Banos, Laguna (Philippines). 1983. p. 61-69. Received Feb 1984
ER  -