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Two-wheel tractor or better known as walking tractor or power tiller that are generic terms understood in the USA and in parts of Europe as a rotary tiller or power tiller that can be wheeled and/or self-propelled but normally not. more...

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Further "power tiller" can be understood as a garden tiller / rototiller of the small horse power (3-7 HP) petrol/gasoline powered, hobby gardener variety. Additionally, as the rotary tillerpage denotes rotary tiller is technically an attachment to a tractor. Alternatively the terms power tiller or rotary tiller in Asia and elsewhere are always understood to be rubber or iron wheeled, self-propelled machines of 5 - 18 HP and usually powered by heavy duty single cylinder diesel engines (many Asian countries historically have had a high luxury tax on petrol/gasoline). Many Westerners do not realize the importance that large horsepower 2-wheel farm tractor's played in their own nations' agriculture mechanization process. They simply categorize two-wheel tractors as lawn and garden equipment. This even though they are still in wide use as farm and orchard tractors in southern and eastern Europe.

Adding to the nomenclature confusion, agricultural engineers like to classify them as single axle tractors. These traditional or technical names are either confusing, technically inaccurate and/or unwieldy. Therefore, the remaining part of the article will refer to the self-propelled, single axle, power tillers as 2-wheel tractors.

For production agriculture, past and present, two-wheel tractors are offered with wide range attachments such as rotovators, moldboard, disc-plow and spike-tooth harrows, seeders, transplanters, and planters. Even zero till/no-till planters and seeders have become available. In plant protection two-wheel tractor attachments consist of various inter-cultivators and sprayers. For harvesting mowers, reaper/grain harvesters, reaper-binders, and even combine harvesters are available for them. For transport, trailers with capacities from .5 to 2 plus ton cargoes are available. All the chores done by larger 4-wheel tractors. This confusion or misunderstanding runs deep even at research and institutional levels. The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization's own statistical database, FAO Stat gauges levels of mechanization by numbers of 4-wheel tractors and ignores completely the fact that 2-wheel tractors perform exactly the same work that 4-wheeler tractors do. By using FAO's statistics, international donors and agricultural research and development centers assume that since Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have very few 4-wheel tractors, that they are completely unmechanized, as compared to India, who besides having 100,000 two wheel tractors also has a large population of 4-wheel tractors. Yet, when two-wheel tractors are included, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are the most highly mechanized countries in south Asia, in terms of area under mechanized tillage operations.

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