Mechanization

Allowing to greatly reduce the hardship of work peasants, especially women (here sowing maize) the use of a tractor and agricultural tools is today an essential mechanism to make the transition to agro-ecological agriculture possible.

Young people leave for the cities and there are fewer and fewer day laborers. Due to a lack of manpower, farmers therefore resort to chemical herbicides to weed the fields or to weed. Those who cannot afford herbicides practice bruly. This ancestral technique, by reducing grasses to ashes instead of burying them, reduces the supply of organic matter to the soil and causes bush fires which destroy young tree seedlings and intensify deforestation.

Planète Paysans therefore offers small farmers the possibility of renting tractors with tools and the driver for a cost of use identical to that of the purchase of chemicals and daily labour.