The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar
The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the role of mechanization in agricultural development. This literature has given rise to debates over the design of institutions and policies to facilitate accelerated mechanization, the role of outsourcing services in overcoming problems of acces...
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| author | Belton, Ben Win, Myat Thida Zhang, Xiaobo Filipski, Mateusz J. |
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| description | The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the role of mechanization in agricultural development. This literature has given rise to debates over the design of institutions and policies to facilitate accelerated mechanization, the role of outsourcing services in overcoming problems of access to machinery, and questions regarding the future of smallholder agriculture. We contribute to these debates using two pairs of complementary demand side (farm household) and supply side (agricultural machinery retailer) surveys, implemented in Myanmar in 2016 and 2017 across two major agro-ecological zones. Our analysis provides evidence that extremely rapid agricultural mechanization took place during the period of political and economic reforms from 2011 to 2020. In both zones surveyed, use of machinery for land preparation, harvesting, and threshing was close to scale-neutral due to a dynamic outsourcing services market. Rather than representing a single transformational change, mechanization’s broad appeal to farm households results from an accumulation of incremental, overlapping, complementary advantages. These include labor savings, reduced drudgery, convenience, increased speed and timeliness of operations, improved ability to manage weather-related risks, and reduced loss of grain during harvesting. We provide examples of policies on trade, finance, and land tenure that contributed to this transformation with practical implications for ongoing debates on mechanization in other countries, and suggest some generalizable lessons. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1425492025-02-24T06:49:40Z The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar Belton, Ben Win, Myat Thida Zhang, Xiaobo Filipski, Mateusz J. land tenure capacity development labour banking agriculture smallholders trade agricultural mechanization cultivated land risk mechanization The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the role of mechanization in agricultural development. This literature has given rise to debates over the design of institutions and policies to facilitate accelerated mechanization, the role of outsourcing services in overcoming problems of access to machinery, and questions regarding the future of smallholder agriculture. We contribute to these debates using two pairs of complementary demand side (farm household) and supply side (agricultural machinery retailer) surveys, implemented in Myanmar in 2016 and 2017 across two major agro-ecological zones. Our analysis provides evidence that extremely rapid agricultural mechanization took place during the period of political and economic reforms from 2011 to 2020. In both zones surveyed, use of machinery for land preparation, harvesting, and threshing was close to scale-neutral due to a dynamic outsourcing services market. Rather than representing a single transformational change, mechanization’s broad appeal to farm households results from an accumulation of incremental, overlapping, complementary advantages. These include labor savings, reduced drudgery, convenience, increased speed and timeliness of operations, improved ability to manage weather-related risks, and reduced loss of grain during harvesting. We provide examples of policies on trade, finance, and land tenure that contributed to this transformation with practical implications for ongoing debates on mechanization in other countries, and suggest some generalizable lessons. 2021-05-18 2024-05-22T12:10:39Z 2024-05-22T12:10:39Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142549 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103094 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2017.01.012 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293809_02 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293809 Open Access Elsevier Belton, Ben; Win, Myat Thida; Zhang, Xiaobo; and Filipski, Mateusz J. 2021. The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar. Food 101(May 2021): 102095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102095 |
| spellingShingle | land tenure capacity development labour banking agriculture smallholders trade agricultural mechanization cultivated land risk mechanization Belton, Ben Win, Myat Thida Zhang, Xiaobo Filipski, Mateusz J. The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar |
| title | The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar |
| title_full | The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar |
| title_fullStr | The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar |
| title_full_unstemmed | The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar |
| title_short | The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar |
| title_sort | rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in myanmar |
| topic | land tenure capacity development labour banking agriculture smallholders trade agricultural mechanization cultivated land risk mechanization |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142549 |
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