![]() ![]() This study is therefore aimed at analysing the good and bad points of substituting the age-old and time-tested manual land preparation as traditionally practiced by smallholders (who constitute the bulk of the rural farming population in Nigeria, as elsewhere in the Third World) with modern tractor mechanization for tillage. ![]() ![]() In the agricultural sector especially, it has been suggested that the use of heavy machinery and tractor mechanization for land preparation would not only promote the expansion of cultivated land area per farm family, but would also enhance agricultural output, regardless of the original nature of factor distributions and other germane sociocultural, economic, ecological and institutional constraints that may militate against the successful operation of such a scheme within the smallholders' reality. Since the early 1960s, a massive industrialization policy (largely misconceived as an indispensable strategy for achieving “rapid” national development) has been vigorously pursued by several Third World governments through the indiscriminate importation of large-scale, capital and energy-intensive technologies from the industrialized countries.
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