Apart from tractors, the agricultural equipment that has most caught the public imagination has been crop harvesters probably because of their (frequently massive) size, multiplicity of functions and bewildering variety of designs reflecting the huge variety in crop products and growth patterns whether the product to be harvested resides in the soil, above the soil surface, or on bushes or trees. Harvesting equipment is described in detail in Harvesters (EOLSS on-line, 2002).
The pace of mechanization is influenced by three other economic factors: capital scarcity and energy costs, farm size, and subsidies. Capital scarcity and energy costs. Poor societies have smaller capital stocks than rich ones, and the cost of capital (in terms of labor) is higher. High capital costs retard mechanization in several ways.

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Apart from tractors, the agricultural equipment that has most caught the public imagination has been crop harvesters probably because of their (frequently massive) size, multiplicity of functions and bewildering variety of designs reflecting the huge variety in crop products and growth patterns whether the product to be harvested resides in the soil, above the soil surface, or on bushes or trees. Harvesting equipment is described in detail in Harvesters (EOLSS on-line, 2002).
The pace of mechanization is influenced by three other economic factors: capital scarcity and energy costs, farm size, and subsidies. Capital scarcity and energy costs. Poor societies have smaller capital stocks than rich ones, and the cost of capital (in terms of labor) is higher. High capital costs retard mechanization in several ways.

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