Question

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF REAPER IN FARMING

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

The advantages of the use of mechanical harvesting machines in the USA were:

The price of wheat was high and demand limitless. These new machines allowed farmers to quickly clear tracts, break up the soil, remove the grass and prepare the ground for cultivation.

The work could be done within a shorter time period and with a lesser number of labourers.

With power-driven machinery, four men could plough, seed and harvest 2,000 to 4,000 acres of wheat in a season.

However there were some disadvantages for the poorer farmers too:

They were thrown out of their jobs and they lost their means of livelihood.

Many of them bought this machine too but it adversly affect them as the machines were expensive and once the demand crossed its limit there was enough surplus grain in the market.

Thus, farmers needed to pay back the loan they had taken from banks to buy these machines, and the farmers

had no money.