Timeline of Agrcultural Mechanization

by Segun R Bello

Overview

The demands for food supply, socio-economic factors, environmental and technological revolution as well as political factors; many of which are spatially specific, have been identified as tools that shaped the characteristic trends in agricultural systems evolution. It is important to know that the performance of agriculture measured (before now) in terms of food, fiber and bio-energy production is now, to a large extent, measured on a range of other social and environmental outcomes, positive and negative. However, the emerging consensus of agricultural mechanization at meeting the needs of a growing and potentially more prosperous global population mainly from the existing stock of agricultural resources has gone a long way in saving the world's ecosystems that could have been irreparably damaged. These needs therefore necessitated a study of the historic events that led to agricultural evolution, revolution, and developments that transcends the old and the new worlds to the 18th century agricultural and industrial revolutions; the 19th century innovations in tools mechanization and power developments, the 20th century complex machines and equipment design and manufacturing among others, which this book gave an explicit account of from the pre-agricultural times (over 3million years ago) through the agricultural times (10,000 years ago) into the agro-based times (19th and 20th centuries) and the emerging sustainable technologies in agricultural mechanization of the 21st century, thereby incorporating future developments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781494983611
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/10/2014
Series:	Agricultural Engineering Practice
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.71(d)
Age Range:	1 - 17 Years

About the Author

SEGUN RAPHAEL BELLO, a native of Ajowa Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria is a graduate scholar of the Federal University of Technology, Akure and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria; a registered member of the apex engineering regulatory body in Nigeria-Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), corporate members of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) and Nigeria Institution of Agricultural Engineers (NIAE).
He is a lecturer and senior research fellow with wide range of experiences in machine design, renewable energy technologies, and workplace ergonomics and had contributed to research articles in international conferences, seminars, workshops and has written several books in engineering and engineering applications.
He is an editor and reviewer to several publications and groups including; Sustainable Agriculture Group (SAG), InTech, the International Commission of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR) among others. Honours include; an enlisted member of Nigeria academia group and recipient of pillar of nation building award in 2011 for significant contributions to research and development. He is married with children.