0 the process of introducing a machine to do something that used to be done by hand:
The decline in farm population was caused by increased mechanization of agriculture.
The early phases of the Industrial Revolution were closely linked to the mechanization of the textile industry.
1 the process of starting to use machines to do something that was previously done by hand:
The mechanization of cotton production increased the cost of machinery.
There is a trend towards increasing farm mechanization in the region.
Because of increasing mechanization, the agricultural workforce diminished by about 60 percent.
Farms are small, cropping intensity is high and the extent of mechanization is low but increasing.
The mechanization of cotton production increased the cost of machinery and farm operating overhead.
Indeed, much of the evidence for the mechanization of wheat farms was obtained from the inventories of insolvent estates.
If returns from non-agricultural investment are higher, then, at the margin, one should expect an inverse relationship between non-agricultural incomes and mechanization.
In this case increase in demand was more of an incentive to mechanization in woodworking than was relatively scarce labor.
