Small holder farmers in rainfed agriculture believe that soil tillage is needed to maximize
crop yields. However, as cropping intensity, and hence tillage intensity, increases there may …

Sugarcane is an industrial crop globally used for producing biofuels and bioproducts and is
the only source of white sugar in Bangladesh. However, labour-dependent cultivation and …

Conservation agriculture (CA) based tillage technology permits direct seeding through the
moderate level of crop residue. CIMMYT introduced this technology in the farmers' field of …

Shortages of hired labour are leading to greater interest in mechanisation for crop
establishment in smallholder agriculture. Due to small field sizes, mechanised planters …

Haque ME 1, Bell RW 2, Islam AKMS 3, Sayre K 1, Hossain MM 4 1 International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), Bangladesh and Mexico; enamul. haque71@ gmail …

Conservation agriculture (CA) is one of the alternative practices of agricultural development
in Bangladesh. In the present study is investigated to determine the extent of practice of …

Abstract Two-wheel tractors (2WTs) are widely used by resource-poor farmers to prepare
land in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains (EIGP). This paper demonstrates that improved …

The availability of machines with suitable technical efficiency and field performance, at a
price that farmers and other users can afford, has become a fundamental requirement for the …

Smallholders in Asia and Africa require low-cost seed drills for minimal soil disturbance
while establishing various crops. A seed drill that can be drawn by the widely-available two …

Climate change impacts are getting more evident in agriculture in the form of changed
rainfall patterns, abnormal temperature regimes, heat waves, wind storms etc. across the …