How Farm Mechanization Made Farming Interesting

Farm mechanization has helped the agricultural sector for promoting mass production and to a certain extent overcoming drawbacks related to labour unavailability. Use of agricultural machinery has made time-consuming traditional agriculture practices easy, decreasing the time and cost of production. Modern high-efficiency equipment like combine harvester has helped in making farming a more profitable enterprise.

Traditional agricultural and hobby farming are becoming less popular due to significant growth in other booming industries in many developing countries. We can see a large scale transformation in agriculture in many countries with the introduction of large-area farming, contract farming done with the use of heavy farm machinery.

Earlier because of the traditional agricultural practices farming there was no attraction in farming for the youth to pursue it for a long time. Thus, the youth started migrating to town to find alternative jobs. To retain the interest of youth in agriculture and lessen the hardship of jobs, various types of farm machinery have been invented for different agricultural processes. Be it purchasing agricultural machinery or through borrowing, farming is transforming into a mechanized mode.

Due to mechanization, a farm needs less manpower these days. Various agricultural activities are done with machines that work faster than manual and hand-operated tools.

From the use of the modern mould-board plough, harrows, levellers in soil management to mulcher, motorized cutters, combine harvesters and tractors use in farming have taken over the fields to make agriculture easy and efficient. The use of machinery has helped in retaining the youth to a certain extent in fields to continue with farming and reaping the harvests. A wide type of machinery is used in agriculture today. Beginning with the use of rotary tiller and power tractor in managing soil to seeders, harvesters and sprayers, all the work is done easily with machinery. Below we have mentioned the main advantages of farm mechanization -

Advantages of farm mechanization -

• ·         The output obtained through machinery is quantitatively high when compared to that of manual work by labour or farmer.
• ·         The quick operation allows a farmer to save the cost associated with logistics and energy use.
• ·         At the time of natural calamities like rain or no rain, it is possible to accomplish work using machinery.
• ·         With the use of machinery, there is less damage due to natural calamities of pests.
• ·         Tractor works as versatile machinery from pulling implements to carrying harvest to storage and markets.