Ox draught power and agricultural transformation in Northern Zambia
1988; Elsevier BV; Volume: 27; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0308-521x(88)90078-9
ISSN1873-2267
Autores Tópico(s)Agriculture and Rural Development Research
ResumoEarly adopters of ox cultivation in Mpika District, Northern Zambia, are compared with a sample of non-adopters. By the second year of ox cultivation, adopters had achieved substantial increases in cultivated area. Most of the additional area was planted to maize grown as a cash crop. The use of oxen allowed some improvement in the timeliness of key operations but the management of the larger farms of ox owners was less intensive in terms of both labour and fertiliser inputs than that of non-owners, and yields were lower. Total labour inputs by ox farmers were high, and most of the labour was provided by household members. The implications of these patterns of change for further agricultural development and economic differentiation are discussed.
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