Human Farm Inputs: Farm machinery

Farm Tractors are widely used equipment.

Farm machinery

• This is a very crucial human input in that it determines the productive capacity of a farming system.
• The machinery used depends on the technological advancements of that community.
• Machinery helps in making work light in processing such as land clearance, ploughing, planting, harvesting and even transport and storage.
• Farm machinery may be divided into two categories.
• These are the traditional machinery and the modern machinery.
• Example of traditional machinery are hoes, plough, wheel barrow and scotch cart.
• Examples of modern machinery are tractor, seed-drill, cultivator and combine harvester.

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