This article is part of the seminar-workshop on the "Consequences of Small Farm Mechanization on Production, Employment and Incomes in the Philippines” sponsored jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Economic and Development Authority, the ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ and the International Rice ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Institute held on December 1-2, 1983 at Tagaytay City. It develops a working definition of a mechanized rice farm, determines the existence of mechanized and nonmechanized rice farms and looks into various factors that affect labor employment and output of small rice farms in Nueva Ecija.
