Farm power transition and access in Senegal: Patterns and constraints
This paper aims at documenting evidences on the patterns and constraints affecting the sequential and simultaneous transition of farm power use from manual to animal to engine. It also aims at exploring access to farm equipment through ownership and rental service. Based on a household data collecte...
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African Association of Agricultural Economists
2019
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| author | Tadesse, Getaw Goundan, Anatole Sarr, Saer |
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| description | This paper aims at documenting evidences on the patterns and constraints affecting the sequential and simultaneous transition of farm power use from manual to animal to engine. It also aims at exploring access to farm equipment through ownership and rental service. Based on a household data collected under the huge and ambitious project called ‘Senegal Agricultural Policy Project’, the result generally confirms the very low use of farm machinery powered by engines despite years of efforts to support agricultural mechanization programs. However, the use of improved farm equipment powered by animals has shown a sharp increase overtime. The study further demonstrated the variation of constraints in farm mechanization transitions defined by sources of power. While demand side constraints such as farm size and off-farm income are more important for machineries than animal plows, supply-side constraints such as rental overhead costs and membership to a producer’s organization are very critical for transition to engine power through facilitating rental service which is the dominant source of access to heavy machineries. Based on these findings, we discussed the strategic interventions that are needed to enhance and sustain agricultural mechanization uptakes in Senegal. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1469682024-11-13T12:23:07Z Farm power transition and access in Senegal: Patterns and constraints Tadesse, Getaw Goundan, Anatole Sarr, Saer energy sources exploration technology farm equipment ownership energy technology farming systems This paper aims at documenting evidences on the patterns and constraints affecting the sequential and simultaneous transition of farm power use from manual to animal to engine. It also aims at exploring access to farm equipment through ownership and rental service. Based on a household data collected under the huge and ambitious project called ‘Senegal Agricultural Policy Project’, the result generally confirms the very low use of farm machinery powered by engines despite years of efforts to support agricultural mechanization programs. However, the use of improved farm equipment powered by animals has shown a sharp increase overtime. The study further demonstrated the variation of constraints in farm mechanization transitions defined by sources of power. While demand side constraints such as farm size and off-farm income are more important for machineries than animal plows, supply-side constraints such as rental overhead costs and membership to a producer’s organization are very critical for transition to engine power through facilitating rental service which is the dominant source of access to heavy machineries. Based on these findings, we discussed the strategic interventions that are needed to enhance and sustain agricultural mechanization uptakes in Senegal. 2019-11-25 2024-06-21T09:10:02Z 2024-06-21T09:10:02Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146968 en Open Access African Association of Agricultural Economists Tadesse, Getaw; Goundan, Anatole; and Sarr, Saer. 2019. Farm power transition and access in Senegal: Patterns and constraints. Presented at the 6th African Conference of Agricultural Economists, in Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria, September 23-26, 2019. https://purl.umn.edu/295841 |
| spellingShingle | energy sources exploration technology farm equipment ownership energy technology farming systems Tadesse, Getaw Goundan, Anatole Sarr, Saer Farm power transition and access in Senegal: Patterns and constraints |
| title | Farm power transition and access in Senegal: Patterns and constraints |
| title_full | Farm power transition and access in Senegal: Patterns and constraints |
| title_fullStr | Farm power transition and access in Senegal: Patterns and constraints |
| title_full_unstemmed | Farm power transition and access in Senegal: Patterns and constraints |
| title_short | Farm power transition and access in Senegal: Patterns and constraints |
| title_sort | farm power transition and access in senegal patterns and constraints |
| topic | energy sources exploration technology farm equipment ownership energy technology farming systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146968 |
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