Mechanization starter pack for smallholder farmers: IPSR Innovation Profile
Smallholder agricultural mechanization is the call of the day for Africa. Smallholder mechanization helps to reduce production cost and drudgery making agriculture more attractive to the youth. Successful mechanization in most of the African countries relies on selection, validation, piloting, and s...
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| author | Matin, Md Abdul Thierfelder, Christian L. Baudron, Frédéric |
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| description | Smallholder agricultural mechanization is the call of the day for Africa. Smallholder mechanization helps to reduce production cost and drudgery making agriculture more attractive to the youth. Successful mechanization in most of the African countries relies on selection, validation, piloting, and scaling of appropriate inexpensive machinery solutions adapted to farm size and financial ability of smallholder farmers. Over the past decade, CIMMYT has tested, validated, and piloted small scale machinery and business models suitable for southern African farmers. Currently there 56 mechanization service providers are operating their businesses in Zimbabwe and Zambia. Based on the experiences and successful piloting, the following starter pack machinery is recommended for scaling through a Service Provider Model. A service provider owns and maintains the starter pack machinery and operate it on a fee-forservice basis benefiting many farmers. The service fee is usually much cheaper for the end users (farmers) compared to the cost of traditional practices and create a win-win situation that makes the business viable for both service providers and farmers. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1219772025-11-06T13:02:21Z Mechanization starter pack for smallholder farmers: IPSR Innovation Profile Matin, Md Abdul Thierfelder, Christian L. Baudron, Frédéric varieties breeds crop management livestock management processing information systems innovation scaling up smallholders selection youth technology livestock crop mechanization Smallholder agricultural mechanization is the call of the day for Africa. Smallholder mechanization helps to reduce production cost and drudgery making agriculture more attractive to the youth. Successful mechanization in most of the African countries relies on selection, validation, piloting, and scaling of appropriate inexpensive machinery solutions adapted to farm size and financial ability of smallholder farmers. Over the past decade, CIMMYT has tested, validated, and piloted small scale machinery and business models suitable for southern African farmers. Currently there 56 mechanization service providers are operating their businesses in Zimbabwe and Zambia. Based on the experiences and successful piloting, the following starter pack machinery is recommended for scaling through a Service Provider Model. A service provider owns and maintains the starter pack machinery and operate it on a fee-forservice basis benefiting many farmers. The service fee is usually much cheaper for the end users (farmers) compared to the cost of traditional practices and create a win-win situation that makes the business viable for both service providers and farmers. 2022-09-30 2022-09-30T12:20:20Z 2022-09-30T12:20:20Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121977 en https://simlesa.cimmyt.org/download/cost-benefit-analysis-of-small-scale-mechanization-in-zimbabwe/ Open Access application/pdf Matin A., Thierfelder C., Baudron F., 2022. Mechanization starter pack for smallholder farmers. Innovation Packages and Scaling Readiness (IPSR) Innovation Profile. CGIAR, September 2022. |
| spellingShingle | varieties breeds crop management livestock management processing information systems innovation scaling up smallholders selection youth technology livestock crop mechanization Matin, Md Abdul Thierfelder, Christian L. Baudron, Frédéric Mechanization starter pack for smallholder farmers: IPSR Innovation Profile |
| title | Mechanization starter pack for smallholder farmers: IPSR Innovation Profile |
| title_full | Mechanization starter pack for smallholder farmers: IPSR Innovation Profile |
| title_fullStr | Mechanization starter pack for smallholder farmers: IPSR Innovation Profile |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mechanization starter pack for smallholder farmers: IPSR Innovation Profile |
| title_short | Mechanization starter pack for smallholder farmers: IPSR Innovation Profile |
| title_sort | mechanization starter pack for smallholder farmers ipsr innovation profile |
| topic | varieties breeds crop management livestock management processing information systems innovation scaling up smallholders selection youth technology livestock crop mechanization |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121977 |
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