Lewis, David 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0732-9020
(1996)
‘Appropriating’ technology? tractor owners, brokers, artisans and farmers in rural Bangladesh.
Journal of International Development, 8 (1).
pp. 21-38.
ISSN 0954-1748
Abstract
Although tractors have long been regarded by policy makers in Bangladesh as being technologically ‘inappropriate’ to local conditions, they have nevertheless been in use in Comilla district for several decades. The failure of cooperative institutional arrangements for farm mechanization in the 1960s has stimulated local rural entrepreneurs to establish their own custom ploughing arrangements. This is a response to a continuing draught power shortage and the needs of farmers to achieve a swift turnaround time between harvesting rain-fed paddy and planting the increasingly profitable potato crop. This type of arrangement forms part of wider entrepreneurial service delivery systems which are becoming increasingly important in rural Bangladesh, where small-scale agriculture interacts with ‘lumpy’ technological inputs.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(IS... |
| Additional Information: | © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2014 13:40 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 21:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/59564 |
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