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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Meio Norte / UEP-Parnaíba.
Data corrente: | 05/01/1996
Data da última atualização: | 09/11/2011
Autoria: | GREEN, D. A. G.
Título: | Agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia: an economic analysis of four case studies.
Ano de publicação: | 1971
Fonte/Imprenta: | Michigan: Michigan State University, 1971.
Páginas: | 377p.
Idioma: | Inglês
Notas: | Tese Doutorado.
Conteúdo: | Four dissimilar cases of agricultural mechanization in different regions of Ethiopia are described and analyzed for potential benefits, costs, and compatability with certain objectives selected from the Ethiopian Third Five-Year Plan. The broad definition of mechanization is employed: any form of mechanical assistance used in agricultural technology, facilitates consideration of any agricultural system in Ethiopia as a potential site for mechanization. Objectives of the thesis are: to present production data over a period of ten years for which farm budgeting is employed; to analyze the financial data with benefit-cost techniques to relate certain non-financial aspects of these cases to objectives specified in Ethiopian development plans for which index trendswere estimated; to demonstrate the types pf data required for economic analyses of agricultural mechanization; to demonstrate the applicability of the methodology to four different agricultural systems. Systems are classified as employing hand-, animal-, or engine-pwered technology. The selected cases depict four alternative options open to policy-makers interested in improving agricultural mechanized technology in Ethiopia. Mechanization is regarded as a process of improvement or transition. Potential commercial viability is the principal criterion employed for selection of cases. No value is placed in mechanization per se without economic justification for proposed changes. Hence, introduction of cash crops into the agricultural systems are essential.
Palavras-Chave: | Agricultural mechanization.
Thesagro: | Análise Econômica; Mecanização Agrícola.
Thesaurus Nal: | economic analysis; Ethiopia.
Categoria do assunto: | --
Registro original: | Embrapa Meio Norte / UEP-Parnaíba (CPAMN-UEPP)
Exemplares: | CPAMN-UEPP - (4653-1) - ADD - TS - PP - TS 003/1971 -  - TS003/1971 - DIS