Tilling the land using cattle in preparation of planting of rice or vegetables, near a village in Barisal (southern district), Bangladesh. Machines are taking over farming in Bangladesh -- slowly but surely -- a major shift in centuries-old manual cultivation. Ploughing with cows and buffaloes and irrigating fields manually will soon be a thing of the past. About 67 percent of the million hectares of arable lands are irrigated by mechanised means. Power tillers and tractors till nearly 70 percent of million hectares of total cropland today in Bangladesh.

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