USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

LIFE IN THE SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In Tennessee, mechanization ____ improve agricultural efficiency
A
did
B
did not
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Agricultural machinery can increase the degree of multiple cropping of cultivated land to provide the potential for multiple crop cycles per year, thus improving production capacity and land output rates (Peng et al., 2020; Ji et al., 2021).

Detailed explanation-2: -It can also relieve labour shortages, improve timeliness of agricultural operations, ensure the efficient use of resources, enhance market access by allowing farmers to sell more than just the raw product and contribute to mitigating environmental damage such as soil degradation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mechanization in agriculture greatly reduced the need for human and animal labor. From 1950 to 2000, production on U.S. farms more than doubled with less than a third of the labor costs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mechanized agriculture is the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanize the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker productivity. The effective mechanization contributes to increase production in two major ways: firstly the timeliness of operation and secondly the good quality of work.

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