define mechanization and its benefits
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Mechanization is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery.
Benefits of Mechanization :
- TIMELINESS OF OPERATION
farm mechanization ensures that all farm operation are done and completed within a given period of time
- MECHANIZATION SAVES TIME
in farm mechanization, all most human efforts are substituted with machines. Hence labour saved could be employed somewhere else
- MECHANIZATION REDUCES HEALTH HAZARDS
farm mechanization reduces health hazards including those posed by the use of cutlass, hoe, digger, knives, stumps and pests
- MECHANIZATION REDUCES DRUDGERY
farm mechanization makes it easy to avoid unpleasant manual jobs
- MECHANIZATION INCREASES FARM YIELD
as a result of mechanization, farmers become richer due to increased yield
- IT ENCOURAGES LARGE SCALE FARMING
with the use of machine which reduces labour and thereby making the work faster and easier, farmers tends to go into large scale farming activities
- INCREASE IN OUTPUT
mechanization makes it possible for farmers to have increase in output