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Small Farmer Mechanization in the Santa Cruz Colonization Zone: a Failure of Farming Systems Diagnosis?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

Graham Thiele
Graham Thiele
Affiliation:
British Tropical Agricultural Mission (BTAM), Casilla 359, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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Summary

This paper uses survey results to show how one group of small scale farmers in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, were able to mechanize annual cropping despite a farming systems diagnosis which indicated that this was not a viable development path. It attempts to identify the underlying causes of farmer success and diagnosis failure.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 1992 , pp. 453 - 460
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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