Problems in Utilization of Farm Machinery

Farm Machinery Operation Cost Calculations

Machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in rural China☆

Article history: Received 28 February 2011 Received in revised form 13 July 2011 Accepted 8 August 2011 Available online 19 September 2011 This paper investigates the endogenous linkages between farmers' machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in China. Both the theoretical model and the empirical results based on a survey of 453 households in Anhui Province indicate that agricult...

Mass Media utilization pattern of farm Women

ndia lives in villages and among the total village, a large number are situated in remote areas where little developmental activities have taken place because of several factors viz, illiteracy, poverty, lack of information facilities etc. The development of rural areas is the first challenge for the nation builders. The major thrust of rural development has been towards changing behavior of vi...

A Multivariate Analysis of Factors Influencing Farm Machinery Purchase Decisions

This paper presents a model of the farm management process. The model suggests that certain socioeconomic characteristics of farm managers will influence their decision-making process. Several characteristics are hypothesized and tested using multivariate techniques (multivariate analysis of variance, range tests, and multiple comparisons). The analysis indicates that the soil zone, value of ma...

Farm Machinery Investment and the Tax Reform Act of 1986

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 significantly changed incentives for investing. This analysis specifically examines how changes in marginal tax rates, depreciation schedules, and the investment tax credit altered the cost of capital and net investment in agriculture. A stochastic coefficients econometric methodology is used to estimate an investment function which is then used to simulate the effect...