Farm mechanization and social cohesion | The Manila Times

ONE of the main reasons why our agricultural sector is backward and its productivity low compared to neighboring countries is the minimal adoption of modern machinery in our farms. Our agricultural mechanization intensity is around 2.7 per hectare, less than half of Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia.

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