The choice or selection of agricultural equipment is dictated by a multiplicity of factors including the nature and size of the enterprise, the profitability and access to finance, the economic status of the region, the accessibility to a range of equipment options at local level, the ownership (individual, shared or cooperative) of equipment and access to mechanization contractors.
Since the profitability of machines-their comparative advantage-is tied closely to labor costs, expensive energy is likely to retard mechanization much more in countries with cheap labor. Farm size. The size of the average farm is largely a reflection of the scarcity of land relative to labor and thus need not be an independent influence on the pace of mechanization. Mechanization can certainly facilitate the growth of large farms, however, as it did in the United States after 1940 and later in Western Europe.

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The choice or selection of agricultural equipment is dictated by a multiplicity of factors including the nature and size of the enterprise, the profitability and access to finance, the economic status of the region, the accessibility to a range of equipment options at local level, the ownership (individual, shared or cooperative) of equipment and access to mechanization contractors.
Since the profitability of machines-their comparative advantage-is tied closely to labor costs, expensive energy is likely to retard mechanization much more in countries with cheap labor. Farm size. The size of the average farm is largely a reflection of the scarcity of land relative to labor and thus need not be an independent influence on the pace of mechanization. Mechanization can certainly facilitate the growth of large farms, however, as it did in the United States after 1940 and later in Western Europe.

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