A new series of e-learning courses on Small-scale agricultural mechanization hire services as a business enterprise has recently been launched through the FAO elearning Academy, as a result of a joint collaboration involving the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and...

With a world population blooming toward 9.7 billion in 2050 and global food demand expected to rise by at least 70%, producing enough food to feed the world will prove to...

Finger millet (kurakkan) is an important food crop grown in the rain-fed uplands (dry zone) of Sri Lanka. It can be cultivated under adverse soil and climatic conditions. In particulat, the crop is important crop in tropical regions...

The farming machinery hiring centre was recently launched through the “Climate-Smart Crop and Mechanization Systems Scaling-up” project in Sri Lanka. Several distinguished guests were present for the launch of the farming hiring centre in Sri Lanka....

Women faremrs and sustainable mechanization. Improving lives and livelihoods in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Episode I: The Nepal chapter To register please visti this website: https://www.icimod.org/rms/webinar/ More info here: http://www.fao.org/3/cb3486en/cb3486en.pdf

This publication discusses the role information and communications technology (ICT) plays in agricultural mechanization, which has the potential to transform and improve smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. Although mechanization levels tend to be low in African countries, there...

This report presents and reflects on the opportunities that new technological developments related to automation and precision agriculture (e.g. robotics) can offer to agriculture in developing countries. These technologies are mainly targeted to support farmers that struggle with...

The Farm Mechanization and Training Centre (FMTC) is the only national level training institute for farm machinery...

On 21 September 2020 to support paddy farmers in Anuradhapura district, FAO together with the government of Sri Lanka conducted a field demonstration on sustainable agricultural mechanization (SAM). Methods on hiring and using a 4-wheel tractor powered mobile...