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Appropriate Technologies

  1. Bamboo Load-Centered Wheelbarrow

    2023-12-20 A standard wheelbarrow, with the wheel at the front, places about half the weight of the load on the operator. A load-centered wheelbarrow places the wheel in the center of the load, shifting 90% or more of the weight to the wheel instead of the operator. This allows the device to be used for...
    Wheels-Design & Co... Water Transport Food Produce-Trans... Food-Transportation

  2. Low-Cost Microcontrollers

    2022-04-12 The main purpose of this article is to create awareness of microcontrollers as a low-cost approach for real-time monitoring of environmental factors related to small-scale agriculture. The first section presents potential uses of data, such as air and soil temperature, which can be monitored...
    Microcontroller Crop Monitoring Weather Forecasting Weather

  3. Rotary weeder - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Effective weed management can increase yields by more than 50%, but usually takes a lot of time. As a farmer it is therefore worthwhile investing in labour-saving weed management tools. In this video you can learn how to control weeds in lowland rice using the...
    Weeds Weed Control AccessAgriculture Rice Farm Equipment Appropriate Techno... East Africa

  4. Load-Centered Wheelbarrow

    A standard wheelbarrow, with the wheel at the front, places about half the weight of the load on the operator. A load-centered wheelbarrow places the wheel in the center of the load, shifting 90% or more of the weight to the wheel instead of the operator. This allows the device to be used for...
    Food-Transportation Water Transport

  5. L'Atelier Paysan

    We are a French-speaking collective of small-scale farmers, employees and agricultural development organisations, gathered together as a cooperative named l’Atelier Paysan, a tool box of farmer-driven technologies and practices.Based on the principle that farmers are themselves innovators, we...
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