Hire services by farmers for farmers : Fao Diversification Booklet No. 19

Hire services have the potential of providing improved livelihoods to small-scale farmers the world over. These services cab reduce drudgery, expand or intensify crop production, contributing to food security, reduce production, post-harvest and marketing costs and increase smallholder incomes. This booklet is intended to raise awareness and promote hire services as a viable smallholder enterprise among policy-makers, development specialists and others involved in development programmes