Farm Machinery

Where small farmers are currently employing traditional technologies that are inefficient, they often cannot improve this technology because of the leap in scale and capital cost to commercially available equipment. It is therefore the goal of intermediate technology proponents to help fill this gap with good quality tools and equipment that are affordable and suited to the scale of operations of the small farmers. Mechanical aids include hand tools, animal drawn equipment, power tillers, tractors, engines, electric motors, processing and hauling equipment.