Breaking the Barriers to Small Farm Mechanization

Breaking the Barriers to Small Farm Mechanization……….wagon wheel……

There is no guaranteed procedure to ensure the transfer of any technology because of the variability of situations and conditions surrounding popularization and extension of technology. Some important initial considerations in mechanization technology dissemination are careful assessment in identifying mechanization needs and prescribing the appropriate machinery or set of machinery. Equally essential is the approach on how we attempt to have our farmers `adopt or adapt’ the technology we offer.

 

Breaking the Barriers to Small Farm Mechanization"

Small Farmers Mechanization Project Implementing Process……………..

Small Farmers Mechanization Project Implementing Process................."

Australians provide less support to their agriculture sector than any other nation

Australians provide less support to their agriculture sector than any other nation

Mick Keogh – Thursday, September 20, 2012

The OECD has released its annual review of national agricultural policies, and the results confirm that total government support measures for Australian agriculture are the lowest for any developed nation on earth, when expressed as a percent of national GDP.

The OECD carries out a review of international subsidy and support measures for agriculture each year, compiling a comprehensive database which details the value of government trade and subsidy measures for national agriculture sectors. Support measures for national agriculture sectors are expressed in a number of different ways, and mainly reported as either the percent of farmers gross income received from government subsidies and support measures (%PSE) or as total support measures for the agriculture sector expressed as a percentage of national GDP (%TSE).

When expressed as percent of total support (which includes tariffs, subsidies, and funding for things like research and development), Australia provides the lowest level of support for its agriculture sector (0.16% of GDP) of any developed nation included in the OECD analysis (as the following graph highlights).

When expressed in terms of Producer Support Estimate (%PSE) – which is the percentage of farmers income which is a consequence of government support measures, Australian agriculture ranks second lowest in the OECD (3% of farmers income from government support measures) , with only New Zealand (1%) lower. The OECD average support level was 18.8% – still persistently high despite global agricultural commodity prices being at historically high levels.

No doubt there will be grateful outpourings of gratitude and support from the Australian community and media for what is effectively for taxpayers the cheapest agriculture sector in the world, providing safe and nutritious food and earning 15% of Australia’s export income in the almost complete absence of any government or taxpayer support measures.

Australians provide less support to their agriculture sector than any other nation"

sugarcane planting Ethopia…………….

sugarcane planting Ethopia................"

Sugar cane

Long ago, honey was the only sweetener in the countries beyond Asia, and all visitors to India were taken with the “reed which produced honey without bees”. What was that reed? Sugar cane was the reed.

Sugar cane (Saccharum spp.) is a tall grass that looks rather like bamboo. It was known in New Guinea for thousands of years. Sugar cane spread along human migration routes to Asia and India. Here

it was crossbred with some wild sugar cane relatives to produce the commercial sugar cane we know today.

Explorer Christopher Columbus transported sugar cane from the Canary Islands to what is now the Dominican Republic in 1493. The crop was taken to Central and South America from the 1520s onwards, and later to the British and French West Indies.

Sugar cane "

Native plants are valued for their economic, ecological, genetic, and aesthetic benefits

Native plants are valued for their economic, ecological, genetic, and aesthetic benefits in addition to their intrinsic value as living species. The use of native plant material (seeds, cuttings, plants) in vegetation projects plays an important role in the maintenance and restoration of native plant gene pools, communities, and ecosystems, and can help reverse the trend of species loss in Pakistan. Are we planning to develop live museums & seed zones @ various places of the country for various indigenous species almost we have already lost so many of them but some if remains………..Green Revolution era is over technically let’s focus more on “Evergreen Revolution”……………..

 

Native plants are valued for their economic, ecological, genetic, and aesthetic benefits "

Chiltepin pepper (Capsicum annuum) "mother of all peppers"

Chiltepin pepper (Capsicum annuum) “mother of all peppers” fruits are tiny but pack a punch! In Mexico, they are also called “chile” and sometimes “bird peppers”……………The Coronado National Forest in Arizona has reserved 2,500 acres in the “Wild Chile Botanical Area”, that provides habitat for the largest population of chiltepin chile peppers (Capsicum annuum var. glabrisculum) north of Me

xico.

A small, fiery, round pepper native to Mexico known as chiltepin (Capsicum annuum) is the single wild progenitor of hundreds of sweet or hot pepper varieties found in grocery stores today (jalapeno, poblano, mirasol, cayenne, bell, and others). Habanero and Tabasco are two peppers that did not originate from chiltepin.

Chiltepin are the oldest as well as the hottest wild pepper in the Americas. They grow on the rocky surfaces of steep slopes and are difficult to find because they grow in among other shrubs.

Chiltepin pepper (Capsicum annuum) "mother of all peppers""

some cotton growers used "Defoliant/Stress Inducers

And some cotton growers used “Defoliant/Stress Inducers” to their cotton fields……………in this way nothing will remain neither for pickers nor for animals……………

some cotton growers used "Defoliant/Stress Inducers"

Cotton after final picking..

Cotton after final picking………….fields used to be allowed for any last remains on the plant to be picked by the pickers as the final reward…….Then animals r allowed to graze until the last green leaf……only after that cotton plant are cut & removed from the fields. and that field will be prepared for next crop most probably wheat. Cotton sticks r used for various purposes like used as the fuel for cooking, being used in houses “typical villages houses made of mud & such dried trashes”, chip board making etc & etc………..and some may incorporate it into the soil….

Cotton after final picking.."

Just a slight change in weather.

……..”northern winds” approaching towards winter, variation in day/night temp, dew factor etc…have changed the green landscape of onion field……..due to multiple factors like thrips, downy mildew & some stresses……..@ this stage onion field require more attention………

 

Just a slight change in weather."