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Peets, S
Woods, S
Topics
Precision Agriculture for Small Holders
Type
Oral
Year
2020
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1. Mechanisation of smallholders in Zambia by agrodealer development

The main challenges hampering agricultural mechanization in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are affordability, availability, lack of farmer skills and constraints within the private sector. Smallholders are trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low demand, high cost, and lack of financing. Low capacity and lack of support for mechanisation contractors (agrodealers) to succeed is holding back the development. The objectives of this work were (i) to assess the affordability of mechanisation systems... S. Peets, S. Woods