Farm Mechanisation in Asian Countries-Some Perspectives

Some Perspectives A V Jose In a number of densely populated Asian countries, rural workers dependent on agricultural wage employment as their principal source of income account for a sizeable share of the total labour force engaged in agriculture. This lends significance to analysis of the net impact of farm mechanisation on prospective wage income of the rural population. Some issues related to farm mechanisation and also the consequences of farm mechanisation are examined in this paper.