Tuesday 23 April 2019

Transport In Agriculture

In the agricultural industry, transportation is one of the most important points for making money. Transportation usually marks the entry door from one stage of post-harvest mode.

Transport could be traditional or mechanized, is required to move the farm commodities from the harvest fields to the harvesting or drying place form there to farmer's stores and then to bigger central storage buildings and in last retailers for final marketing.

Talking about traditional transport, In many sections of the world, farmers live far away from any highway on which grain can be transported to sites of collection, storage, or retailing. So, Therefore, products are often taken in small batches over very bad roads or trails. This requires long carrier times and high expenses per unit of goods moved, leading to a big reduction in incomes. This does not help farmers to improve their production level.

At many places roads are not constructed yet, products are generally by transported people, donkeys, camels, and sometimes horses: oxen are more often used as draught animals. Otherwise, pickup trucks, vans and taxis are often used to move products to the store and marketing places.

For road transport, a tractor trailer is generally used in the field, while on the road goods are carried on trucks of varying quantities. Tractor trailers are the most popular agriculture equipment to use in transport goods. Farmers are seeing other options too like, tractor on rent or trailer on rent by using these options they are able to save money and time both.

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