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There are eight times more tractors in Latin America, and three times more tractors in Asia, than in Africa.
The machines were tractors or stuff instead of mules, but the farmer would have understood: this is what the guy's doing, this is why he's doing it, this is where he's going.
He had a big team using ponies, using dogs, using petrol-driven tractors, dropping multiple, pre-positioned depots of food and fuel through which Scott's final team of five would travel to the Pole, where they would turn around and ski back to the coast again on foot.
Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil.
How can you possibly compare human beings to horses?" Horses, of course, are very limited, and when cars and trucks and tractors came along, horses really had nowhere else to turn.
The machines that will threaten workers in the future are really nothing like those cars and trucks and tractors that displaced horses.
Scott had sort of ponies and some tractors and a few dogs, all of which went wrong, and Scott and his team of four people ended up on foot.
Despite what you may have heard, tractors and Marxism aren't the only things the Russian cares for.
Other than that -- 70-odd minutes of obscure and ineffective propaganda in favor of tractors and collectivization.
I say 20th century Yorkshire but I am very confused as to the time period because characters wear relatively modern clothes , have electricity and have access to tractors but often cut wheat with scythes .
He promised to slash poppy production in return for tractors, seed, and other goodies.
Moreover, with its population projected to double in the next three decades, Nigeria needs two million farm tractors and resources to build up to two million houses annually.
Today, several hundred hydrogen-powered prototype cars, buses, vans and minivans, a motorcycle or two, a few scooters, utility vehicles (including a slew of forklift trucks), and even a couple of farm tractors are already operating.
Similarly the agriculture sector is under-capitalized, with extremely low levels of mechanization: an average of 13 tractors per 100 square kilometers compared to 129 per square kilometer in South Asia.
Farmers could be grouped together to pool their production and negotiate a favorable offtake agreement to monetize future sales, then use the receipts to lease equipment, such as tractors.
The reasons were many: poor weather, pests, shortages of animal power after peasants slaughtered livestock rather than losing it to the collective, shortages of tractors, the shooting and deportation of the best farmers, and the disruption of sowing and reaping caused by collectivization itself.
Smart phones are set to connect an additional 2-3 billion of the world’s citizens by 2020, with billions of machine sensors monitoring everything from tractors to jet engines, and further breakthroughs in computing power enabling massive increases in data storage and analysis.
Tractors destroyed millions of agricultural jobs, for example, but tractor, truck, and car manufacturers created millions of new ones.
No need to explain what was behind the act of women and children fleeing in their villages in tractors; there was a vicious force from which these people were escaping.
Resistance to tractors in the early 1900s took a slightly different form.
But they knew that they could not improve their product faster than engineers could improve theirs, and thus that blocking the spread of tractors would be impossible.
The group also pointed out that horses could reproduce themselves, whereas tractors depreciated.
Soon enough, drones will take over the task of spraying pesticides; livestock will be equipped with sensors to track milk quantities, movement patterns, and feed rations; tractors will be controlled by GPS; and app-controlled sowing machines will assess soil quality to determine the optimal distance between rows and plants.
In Myanmar, for example, only 16% of farm households even use tillers or tractors to prepare the land for planting.
By the late twentieth century, farmers sat on tractors, and even coal mining had become largely mechanized.
Each time that machines yielded gains in efficiency (including when tractors took over from horses), old jobs disappeared, but new jobs were created.
It, and what it carries, can be transported in a month anywhere in the world where there are suitable harbors, railways, locomotives, flatcars, truck tractors, diesel fuel, and roads.
Likewise, if the money to fix your roads was embezzled, so that nobody wants to risk their tractors on them, you are not attached to the network.
Tractors and cars eradicated this huge demand on farmland (while ridding cities of manure pollution).
So India’s Mahindra and Mahindra company manufactures tractors in Nanchang for export to the US.