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This book deals with major issues related to hand- and ox-drawn farm implements for different farming systems and ecological areas in Tanzania, It is based on field visits in some ten Tanzanian regions during the second half of 1983, the most intense crisis period in Tanzania. Hence the study may shed some light on the relative importance of problems related to production and distribution of basic farm implements as an element of the crisis. The study includes a survey of the types of farm implements used and preferred by Tanzanian peasants. The structure and conditions of the different levels of production and repair of farm implements in Tanzania, village blacksmiths, small-, medium- and large scale production, are investigated. Introduction and development of new farm implements are analysed through the different existing approaches to technology dissemination examplified by case studies of among other institutions, CAMARTEC, Uyole Agricultural Centre and the Regional Oxenisation Project in Iringa. It is found that most technology development is rather irrelevant to peasant needs. The argument is raised that such development must be conditioned on a close relation between the us

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Author

Björn Mothander, Finn Kjærby, Kjell Havnevik

Publisher

Scandinavian Institute of African Studies

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9789171062901

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, History, Engineering