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Greenseeder: Hand planter could boost productivity for world's poorest farmers
Author(s) -
Fisher Madeline
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
csa news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2325-3584
pISSN - 1529-9163
DOI - 10.2134/csa2016-61-3-1
Subject(s) - courtesy , productivity , state (computer science) , product (mathematics) , agricultural economics , agriculture , sowing , servant , sociology , political science , law , history , mathematics , engineering , archaeology , economics , horticulture , economic growth , biology , geometry , software engineering , algorithm
The man—a farmer—was planting corn, and Raun was amazed by both the utility and coarseness of his technique. On the one hand, agriculture in such steep terrain will never be mechanized, says Raun, an Oklahoma State University (OSU) agronomy professor and an ASA and SSSA Fellow. Even animal-drawn planters are risky, which is why poor farmers across Central America have relied for centuries on the chuzo, or stick planter.