<strong>B4FA Fellow Lominda Afedraru writes:
While farmers in the developed world have been empowered by the use of machinery in their day-to-day activities, those in developing world are still practicing rudimentary farming.
Yet mechanised agriculture is now being emphasised as the way forward.
Powered machinery has replaced many jobs formerly carried out by manual labour and by animal traction with oxen and horses.
But the latter is still useful to most farmers in developing countries including Uganda.
To enable farmers and agro business enterprises to flow with the ever fluctuating agricultural sector, it is very important for government to lease agricultural equipment for a given duration to farmers. Read more