Therefore dealers usually offer with a minimum investment equipment generally known which the farmers buy without special promotion. Mechanisms must be identified to break this technological stagnation. Operator Training Tractor operators usually do not receive special training and very rarely know how to correctly adjust tillage implements. Lack of professionality, wrong equipment settings, among other problems, make the negative effects of traditional tillage implements even worse. One example is the frequent desire of tractor operators to work at high speeds sacrificing in this way work quality and causing unnecessary pulverisation.
Many countries have no capacities, what so ever, to train agricultural machinery operators.
Therefore it results difficult to introduce new equipment that might require special operator training. Field traffic and measures to reduce traffic induced compactions as far as possible also depend very much on the training of the operators. These measures start with the tyres and the pressures used and end with the organization of the work in the field to reduce as far as possible unnecessary turns and trips. In this context the awareness about the susceptibility of a freshly loosened soil to recompaction is also very important. With respect to this frequently mistakes result in serious compactions for example of headlands and consequently to a significant reduction in the water infiltration capacity.