TACHNOLOGY AND LABOUR IN AGRICULTURAL
Agricultural Technology and Labour The majority of farmers in Africa have very little money to invest in modern technology. As a result, most agriculture is very labour intensive, with individuals performing the work on their small plots of land using hoes, hand plow, and other simple tools. Mechanized farm machinery such as tractors and harvesting machines generally are found only on large commercial farms that produce cash crops for export. The price of oil has become far too high for ordinary farmers to use these machines. In some areas of Africa, especially densely populated regions, farming is often closely connected with livestock grazing. Some farmers use cattle as draft animals to pull plows and spread animal wastes on fields as fertilizer. In other areas—including parts of Nigeria and Kenya—nomadic herdsmen usually live apart from settled farmers, resulting in a lack of access to draft animals...