even when you have oxen to help turn over the soil the women still have to do the collecting lakshmi gallagher and his family live in hama vajra in southwestern india working next to fields has become far easier since they started using a harvesting machine. from i don't know how to farm from my father he learnt it from his father. thank you are you familiar with this machine we can finish our work much faster than with an ox what's more the potatoes are already pretty clean when they come out of the soil mechanization proper cultivation practices are giving us much better yields. with the. german development agency g.i. said runs a green innovation center in india among its tasks is bringing together farmers an agricultural machinery makers. farmers have small fields in india and so big machines with a big turning radius don't make any sense so together with the farmers and private companies we try out machines that are more suitable the aim is to make the work for farmers easier and more productive the end of the day with a good plan good power the farmer will have more potatoes than what th