Título

Enhancing smallholder access to agricultural machinery services: lessons from Bangladesh

Autor

Khondoker Mottaleb

Dil Bahadur Rahut

Ali Akhter

Bruno Gerard

Olaf Erenstein

Nivel de Acceso

Acceso Abierto

Licencia

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Materias

Smallholders - (AGROVOC) Farm equipment - (AGROVOC) CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA - (CTI)

Resumen o descripción

Resource poor smallholders in developing countries often lack access to capital goods such as farm machinery. Enabling adequate access through machinery services can thereby significantly contribute to food security and farm incomes. At the core of the service provision model is the lead farmer, who makes the initial investment in agricultural machinery, and provides services to others on a fee-for-service basis. Profiling the lead farmers can thereby provide important lessons and scaling implications. The present paper provides a case study of Bangladesh, using primary data to characterise the lead farmers. General education, credit availability and risk taking attitude play significant roles in whether or not a farm household will be a lead farmer in Bangladesh.

Fecha de publicación

2016

Tipo de publicación

Artículo

Recurso de información

http://hdl.handle.net/10883/18312

Formato

application/pdf

Idioma

Inglés

Audiencia

Investigadores

Repositorio Orígen

Repositorio Institucional de Publicaciones Multimedia del CIMMYT

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