MECHANIZATION AND AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN ASIA AND AFRICA

Sharing Development Experiences

June 18-19

2014Beijing | China

RESEARCH PROGRAM ON

Policies, Institutions, and Markets

Led by IFPRI

The National School of Development at Peking University and International Food Policy Research Institute are jointly organizing a one-day workshop and one-day field visit on agricultural mechanization in Asia and Africa. Agricultural mechanization has recently become an emerging issue for Africa, while in many Asian countries the mechanization process started much earlier and has accelerated since the late 1980s. The purpose of the workshop is to facilitate south-south knowledge exchange among national researchers, policymakers, and private-sector participants for lessons and experiences of mechanization and agricultural transformation in Asian and African countries. A particular focus will be on the role of the private sector in supporting sustainable agricultural mechanization development for countries in which small-scale farmers dominate.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

8:30-9:30 Session One

Opening Remarks: Prof. Yang Yao, Dean of National School of Development

Prof. Justin Yifu Lin, Honorary Dean of National School of Development

Dr. Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute

Chair: Dr. Xiaobo Zhang, Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University; Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Keynote: Dr. Stephen Biggs

Diverse patterns of smaller scale rural mechanisation and sustainable rural development

Q&A

9:30-10:45 Session Two - Asia presentations

Chair: Dr. Xiaobo Zhang, Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University; Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Nepal: Dr. Devendra Gauchan, Senior Scientist, Nepal Agricultural Research Council

The role of the state and the private sector in promoting sustainable mechani-zation, drawing experience from Nepal

Bangladesh: M.A. Sattar Mandal, Bangladesh Agricultural University

Agricultural mechanization in Bangladesh: role of policies and emerging private sector

Pakistan: Dr. Syed Ghazanfar Abbas, Director (Farm Mechanization), Pakistan Agricultural Research Council

Mechanization and agricultural transformation in Asia and Africa: sharing development experiences: case study - Pakistan

Q&A

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:30 Session Three - Asia presentations

Chair: Scott Edmond Justice, Agriculture Mechanization Specialist, CIMMYT

China: Prof. Funing Zhong, Nanjing Agricultural University

Impact of demographic change on agricultural mechanization: farmers’ adap-tation and implication for public policy

Thailand: Viboon Thepent, Director of Postharvest Engineering Research Group, Agricultural Engineering Research Institute

The role of the state and the private sector in promot ing sustainable mechani-zation, drawing experience from Thailand

India: Dr. Gajendra Singh (India), Adjunct Professor,

Indian Agriculture and Mechanization

Q&A

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Workshop

14:00-15:50 Session Four - Africa presentations

Chair: Dr. Kevin Chen, China Program Leader and Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Ghana: Dr. Nazaire Houssou, Associate Research Fellow, IFPRI

Patterns of ownership and use of agricultural machinery in Ghana: implications for agricultural mechanization policy

Nigeria: Dr. Hiro Takeshima, Research Fellow, IFPRI

Agricultural mechanization in Nigeria: Demand characteristics and nature of tractor service provisions

Ethiopia: Dr. Dawit Alemu, Director of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Gender Research Directorate, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research

The prospect for introducing mechanical threshing technology in smallholder agriculture: the case of Ethiopia

Guush Berhane Tesfay, Associate Research Fellow, IFPRI

Demand and use of tractors in agricultural production in Ethiopia

Q&A

15:50-16:20 Coffee break

16:20-17:10 Panel discussion 1 - The role of the private sector in agricultural mechaniza-tion development

Chair: Dr. Xinshen Diao, Deputy Division Director of Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI

Panelists: Scott Edmond Justice, Agriculture Mechanization Specialist, CIMMYT

Samson Aryeequaye Tetteh (Ghana), Managing Director, RST Company Ltd

Dr. Gajendra Singh (India), Adjunct Professor, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)

Lijing Liu(China), Senior Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences

17:10-18:00 Panel discussion 2: The role of the government in agricultural mechanization development

Chair: Dr. Xinshen Diao, Deputy Division Director of Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI

Panelists: Mr. Shreemat Shrestha (Nepal), Division Chief, Agricultural Engineering Division, Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC)

Girma Mogues Ketsela (Ethiopia), Mechanization Research Director, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research

George Kwame Akyena Brantuo (Ghana), Deputy Director, Agricultural Engineering Services Directorate, Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Akeem Oyeyemi Lawal (Nigeria), Senior Extension Specialist, National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services

Bing Zhao, Head, Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (CSAM), UNESCAP

18:00-18:20 Closing remarks

Thursday, June 19, 2014Field Visit

8:00-18:00 All-day field visit to users and producers of agricultural machinery in China

The field visit will depart from Lakeview Hotel. The visit will include Xingnongtianli Agricultural Cooperative in Shunyi District, Beijing and the experimental station of Chinese Academy of Agriculture Mechanization Sciences in Changping District, Beijing.

Dr. Syed Ghazanfar Abbas is the Director (Mechanization) in the Plant Sciences Division of Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), Islamabad. He graduated in Agricultural Engineering in 1980 from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Immediately afterwards he joined tractor manufacturing company as Assistant Manager (Marketing and Sales). In July 1985, Dr Abbas joined PARC in Senior Engineer Crop Maximization Program, an Italian Project dealing with tractors farm equipment operation, and maintenance. In 1992, he proceeded to New Zealand where he completed his M.Phil, and Ph.D from 1992 to 1998. After returning from New Zealand, Dr. Abbas joined the Farm Machinery Institute (FMI) of the PARC. In 2006, he was assigned to work as Technical Staff Officer to Chairman, PARC as well as Director (Far Mechanization) at the PARC-HQ.

Syed Ghazanfar Abbas

George Kwame Akyena Brantuo has been working as an Agricultural Engineer at Agricultural Engineering Services Directorate of Ministry of Food & Agriculture (MOFA) in Ghana for 23 years. He previously worked as the Deputy Director and a National Coordinator of Japanese grant Assistance Project for 8 years, and as a Desk Manager for MOFA’s Agricultural Mechanization Services Centres Program for 6 years.

George Kwame Akyena Brantuo

In 2009, Kevin Chen joined IFPRI as China Program Leader and Senior Research Fellow, based in Beijing, China. He is also Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (ICARD), jointly established by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and IFPRI. He currently serves as a co-editor of China Agricultural Economic Review. Kevin has more than 17 years research and outreach experience in development issues related to agricultural production, market, trade, environment, and policy. Before joining IFPRI, Kevin was Field Director of $40 million China Canada Small Farmer Adapting to Global Markets Project, jointly funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Chinese Ministry of Commerce, from 2005 to 2009. He was an assistant professor and then associate professor at the Department of Resource Economics and Sociology, University of Alberta, from 1995-2004. He also served as a co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics in 2003-04.

Kevin Chen

Dawit Alemu is the Director of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Gender Research Directorate, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). He has been associated with EIAR since 1999 as a senior researcher. His research areas is agricultural marketing with due emphasis to agricultural inputs.

Dawit Alemu

Dr Stephen Biggs has a Bachelor degree in Agriculture from University of London (Wye College), a Master in Agricultural Economics from University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, and a PhD in Agricultural Economics, University of California (Berkeley). Initially he trained and worked in household survey/econometric analysis and quantitative modeling of the effects of agrarian structure on the outcomes of alternative Green Revolution policies in Bihar, India. He also worked on economies of scale in agriculture/food processing. His current research interests: policy analysis of diverse patterns of rural and agricultural mechanization, rural development, fairer trade, and inequality reduction. His academic positions include: Home based fellow, Institute of development Studies, Brighton; Senior lecturer, School of International Development (DEV), University of East Anglia, Visiting Scientist, Deptt Agricultural economics and Centre for Asian Studies, University of British Columbia; Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu. Main secondments: Ford Foundation, Bangladesh (1974-6). CIMMYT’s regional economist based in Delhi (1977-8), Nepal Agricultural Research Council (1999-2002) under a Government of Nepal/World Bank project.

Stephen Biggs

SPEAKERS

Akeem Oyeyemi LAWAL, an agricultural engineer, was educated at the University of Ilorin (undergraduate) and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (postgraduate) in Nigeria. He works with the National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services, NAERLS, which has the national mandate for agricultural extension research in Nigeria. Since joining the NAERLS in 1989, he has been involved with sourcing, developing, validating and disseminating proven engineering technologies and innovations relevant to the needs of farmers and compatible with Nigerian farming systems. His research area is agricultural extension with special focus on technology adoption processes, effectiveness of extension methods and impact assessment of government policies on agriculture. He is also engaged with skill and capacity building of key staff within the Nigerian Agricultural Extension system and undertakes postgraduate teaching in the Department of Agricultural Engineering at Ahmadu Bello University. He is also interested in renewable energies. He is married with children and enjoys playing tennis at his leisure time.

Akeem Oyeyemi Lawal

Dr. Houssou received his PhD Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart, Germany) in 2010. He is currently an Associate Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC. Dr. Houssou is out-posted to Accra, Ghana where he works on agricultural transformation in the country. Dr. Houssou works on various research themes, including agricultural mechanization both from the demand and supply sides, and the ways through which the use of agricultural machines can be scaled up to meet the growing energy needs in the country’s agricultural sector.

Nazaire Houssou

Shenggen Fan has been Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) since 2009. Dr. Fan joined IFPRI in 1995 as a research fellow, conducting extensive research on pro-poor development strategies in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He led IFPRI’s program on public investment before becoming the director of the Institute’s Development Strategy and Governance Division in 2005. He has served as the Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Food and Nutrition Security since 2012. In 2014, Dr. Fan received the Hunger Hero Award from the World Food Programme in recognition of his commitment to and leadership in fighting hunger worldwide. Dr. Fan received a PhD in applied economics from the University of Minnesota and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Nanjing Agricultural University in China.

Shenggen Fan

Scott Justice has a BA in Political Science and MA in Social Anthropology from University of Kentucky. He has been based in Nepal and working on development programs and researching, writing, and publishing on small farm mechanization, rural energy and rural transport in developing countries for nearly 20 years. For the last 13 months he has been working as an Agricultural Mechanization Specialist for CIMMYT in South Asia and East Africa. He was also worked for CIMMYT in in a similar position in South Asia from 1997 - 2004. Worked as an Independent Consultant from 2005 -2012 in such programs as: IRRI in Cambodia, Tractors for Haiti in Haiti, TetraTech/ARD in Iraq, April International Relief & Development, Joint Development Associates, and ACDI VOCA in Afghanistan, Practical Action in Lesotho, and Sasakawa in Nigeria.

Scott Justice

Xinshen Diao is currently the Deputy Division Director and a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Division of IFPRI and a subtheme leader for the CGIAR’s Policy, Institution, and Market Research Program (CRP2). She has extensive experience on managing large research programs and doing research on economic development and growth, intersectoral linkages, regional integration and dynamics, agricultural policies and institutional changes. She has published more than 100 articles in various peer-reviewed economic journals, IFPRI books and monographs, and external book chapters.

Xinshen Diao

Hiroyuki Takeshima joined IFPRI in January 2009 as a postdoctoral fellow of IFPRI Nigeria office, and joined IFPRI Washington office as a research fellow in 2012. Hiroyuki has conducted research on market participation, transaction costs, agricultural technology adoption, biodiversity, and political economy of seed policies in sub-Saharan Africa. His recent research also focuses on the linkages between market and climatic risks and farmers’ investment, roles of modern production technologies such as irrigation, mechanization, fertilizer on agricultural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. Hiroyuki earned his PhD from Agricultural and Consumer Economics from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2008. Hiroyuki is a citizen of Japan.

Hiroyuki Takeshima

M. A. Sattar Mandal

Dr. M. A. Sattar Mandal is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh. Professor Mandal did his bachelor and masters in agricultural economics from BAU (1973, 1974), PhD from University of London (1979) and post-doc from University of Oxford (1986-87). He worked in many important positions such as the Vice Chancellor of BAU (2008- 2011) and Member for General Economics Division (2000-2001) and for Agriculture, Water Resources & Rural Institutions Division (2011-2013) in the Planning Commission, the central planning organization of the Government of Bangladesh. He worked as a Visiting Professor in many universities abroad and also represented Bangladesh in numerous international academic and policy fora. Major areas of his academic interests include agriculture and rural development, agricultural policies and planning, irrigation and water resource management, agricultural technology and rural institutions.

Justin Yifu Lin is the Honorary Dean and Professor, National School of Development (NSD) at Peking University. He is the Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at World Bank, 2008 - 2012. Prior to joining the Bank, he served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. His research areas include agricultural economics, development economics, and economic reforms in China.

Justin Yifu Lin

Lijing Liu is the Vice Director of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences (CAAMS). She is specialized in the research and development of key technology of agricultural machinery and equipment, the adaptability research of planters in China and field trials.

Lijing Liu

Sampson Aryeequaye Tetteh

Sampson Aryeequaye Tetteh has served as the Managing Director of the RST Company Ltd, one of the largest importers of agricultural machinery and equipment in Ghana since 1996. Before joining the RST Company, he had worked as Chief Executive Officer for Alata Flour Mills Limited from 1990 to 1995, and as General Manager for Hengrace Nigeria Ltd from 1980 to 1990. He is a member of the Ghana Association of Agric Engineers, an Association of all players promoting Agricultural Technology.

Gajendra Singh

Dr. Gajendra Singh is an Adjunct Professor of Agricultural Engineering at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He received PhD from the University of California at Davis and worked at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand for 30 years as a faculty member, Division Chairman, Dean and Vice President. Prof. Singh worked at Indian Council of Agricultural Research as Deputy Director General (Engineering) for three years and as the first Vice Chancellor of Doon University, Dehradun. His areas of expertise are agricultural and rural development, agricultural machinery and mechanization, application of systems techniques to agricultural systems and development of management information systems for agriculture and rural communities. He has served as consultant to IRRI, ICRISAT, ADB, EU, FAO, UNIDO, UNDP and other international agencies.

Xiaobo Zhang is a “National 1000-Talent Program” chair professor of economics at the National School of Development, Peking University, and senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His research fields include Chinese economy, agricultural economics, and development economics. He has published widely in top economics journals, such as Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. His recent books include Governing Rapid Growth in China: Equity and Institutions (2009), Regional Inequality in China: Trends, Explanations and Policy Responses (2009), Narratives of Chinese Economic Reforms: How Does China Cross the River? (2010), and Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (2014). He is a Co-editor of China Economic Review. He was selected as the president of Chinese Economists Society from 2005 to 2006.

Xiaobo Zhang

Dr. Funing Zhong, Prof. at the College of Economics & Management, Nanjing Agricultural University. He is currently the Chairman of the Agricultural and Forestry Economics and Management Disciplinary Appraisal Committee of the State Council Academic Commission, and a Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee of Nanjing Agricultural University. He received his Ph. D. degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1989. Since then he has been worked at the Nanjing Agricultural University and extensively published on food security, agricultural trade, and rural development issues both at home and abroad. He has served as a consultant to the FAO, the World Bank, and IFPRI, also on the Editorial Advisory Committee of Agricultural Economics and Editorial Advisory Committee of Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Funing Zhong

Mr. Zhao Bing has been the Head of the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (CSAM), a regional institution of ESCAP, since December 2012. Previous to that he worked for 5 years as Deputy Director of the Centre of International Cooperation and Service of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, coordinating and leading the design and implementation of bilateral and multilateral international cooperation projects, including the South-South Cooperation programme under China-FAO Trust Fund, the science and technology exchange programmes with the United States and Australia and NGO-related work. During the same period, he has also co-directed the preparation for the establishment of the Asian-Pacific Centre of the International Potato Centre (CIP). During 1999-2007, as an Alternate Representative, he worked in the Chinese Permanent Representation to the UN Agencies in Rome, a diplomatic mission to FAO, WFP and IFAD. Before that, he was a programme officer in the Department of International Cooperation in the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, primarily dealing with Asian and African affairs.

Bing Zhao

Yang Yao is the Dean and Professor, National School of Development (NSD) at Peking University. He is also the Director of China Center for Economic Research. He earned his Ph.D. degree on agricultural and applied economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include economic development and institutional change in China.

Yang Yao

Viboon Thepent is the Director of Postharvest Engineering Research Group since 2003, and a Senior Agricultural Engineering Specialist at Agricultural Engineering Research Institute, Department of Agriculture in Thailand since 1980. He is conducting research and development on agricultural machinery, agricultural process and providing technologies as well as services to government and private agencies involves.

Viboon Thepent

CONFERENCE VENUESecond floor of Wanzhong Building

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