%0 Journal Article
%T A Survey of Animal and Tractor Farming Techniques in Jigawa and Kano State, Nigeria
%A Michael C. Amonye
%A Mahdi Makoyo
%A Ibrahim O. Abdulmalik
%A Ambali A.O
%J International Journal of Engineering Research
%V 3
%N 4
%P 249-251
%D 2014
%I IJER
%X Technology as an economic activity aims at a random 
combination of the factors of production of land, labour and 
capital to achieve profit. The emphasis on technology born out 
of tradition rather than common sense has been the improvement 
and enthronements of the capital factor above all other factors of 
production. But technology is actually all encompassing 
including of course devising other ways through which the 
people can do the same things to achieve better results. Our 
concentration on improving the capital factor has led us into 
enthroning machines at the detriment of the labour or human 
factor leading to poor results
%K animal traction
%K tractor
%K appropriate technology
%K agriculture
%K farming techniques
%U http://www.ijer.in/ijer/publication/v3s4/IJER_2014_414.pdf