A34-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 1,1985
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A
revolutionary new one-ox plow,
developed by researchers spon
sored by Heifer Project In
ternational, an international
supplier of livestock and the
training to raise these animals to
low-income families around the
world, is now enabling farmers in
Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia,
in Southeast Asia) to cultivate
their land more efficiently at half
the ox power. The announcement
of the new development was made
by Dr. Robert Pelant, Asia
Director, at the organization’s
Little Rock headquarters.
Dr. Gordon Hatcher, a
veterinarian for the American
Friends Service Committee
(AFSC) and former Program
Director for Heifer, helped to
design the new plow and harness
for use in Kampuchea by
modifying similar one-ox systems
in use in Ethiopia and the
Philippines. The significance of
this development is that now low
income farmers will be able to
plow with the use of only one ox or
water buffalo instead of the normal
two animals used traditionally by
Third World farmers.
The problem with the two-oxen
Hlubik is new Penn State
dairy extension professor
UNIVERSITY PARK - Joseph
G. Hlubik will “focus on dairy
farm management problems” in
his new role as assistant professor
of dairy science extension at The
Pennsylvania State University.
Hlubik’s appointment, effective
April 15, was announced by W.
Wayne Hinish, associate director
and associate dean of Penn State’s
Cooperative Extension Service.
As a dairy extension specialist,
Hlubik will be involved in
programs that integrate
production management and
economics. “Dairy farmers are
required to be good herd, crop and
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One-ox plow revolutionizes Third World farming
harness in Kampuchea was two
fold. First, a large portion of Kam
puchea’s draft oxen and buffalo
stock were wiped out by epidemic
diseases causing a crucial shor
tage in the country’s only source of
power for plowing. Without these
animals for power, a farmer can
only produce one-fourth as much
food as he could previously.
However, in 1981, Heifer Project
and the AFSC began a cooperative
program to inoculate the
remaining herds and halt the
epidemic diseases. Through this
effort, the draft animal population
has begun a slow increase, but
there are still far fewer animals
available than needed for plowing.
Secondly, the traditional plow
and harness used in this area calls
for two water buffalo or oxen
pulling side-by-side. But even in
better times, the cost of main
taining two oxen is prohibitive to
poor farmers. Dr. Hatcher’s an
swer to this problem was the one
ox (or buffalo) plow, which he
adapted from similar systems in
Ethiopia and the Philippines but
using the resources available to
Kampuchea farmers.
This new design has been found
financial managers,” he says. “I
hope to help in pulling these areas
together and providing tools to use
in analysis and decision making.”
Hlubik received his bachelor’s
degree in animal science from
Cook College, Rutgers University,
in 1976. He earned his master’s in
1979 and his doctorate in 1984 in
dairy science from Michigan State
University.
From 1981 until his Penn State
appointment, Hlubik was a
specialist in dairy management at
Michigan State. Between 1979 and
1981, he worked on dairy nutrition
with Michigan’s extension service.
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to be more efficient as it uses the
draft animal’s powerful shoulder
muscles rather than the neck
muscles pulled into use by the
traditional yoke plow. With the use
of the new harness, an animal’s
pulling power is almost doubled,
enabling a smaller number of
animals to serve a larger number
of small farm families in
producing food for themselves and
their country.
Kampuchea’s recovery from
past years of turmoil has been a
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food production possible and helps
small farmers make the most
efficient use of their animals with
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enable Kampuchea to rebuild itself
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