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Journal of Rural Studies 46 (2016) 155 e168 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Rural Studies journal homepage: /locate/jrurstud Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: Census findings Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb a, *, Timothy J. Krupnik b, Olaf Erenstein a a International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Carretera Mexico-Veracruz Km. 45, El Batan, Texcoco C.P. 56237, Mexico b International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), Bangladesh Country Offi ce, House 10/B, Road 53, Gulshan-2, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: There is strong advocacy for agricultural machinery appropriate for smallholder farmers in South Asia. Received 9 June 2015 Such ‘scale-appropriate’ machinery can increase returns to land and labour, although the still substantial Received in revised form capital investment required can preclude smallholder ownership. Increasing machinery demand has 9 June 2016 resulted in relatively well-developed markets for rental services for tillage, irrigation, and post-harvest Accepted 12 June 2016 operations. Many smallholders thereby access agricultural machinery that may have otherwise been Available online 5 July 2016 cost prohibitive to purchase through fee-