These data collected by household survey and from secondary sources of Bangladesh, Bihar, Nepal and West Bengal for the review of the ongoing policies and programmes for mechanization in the EGP. Since 2000, policies and programmes for agricultural development in EGP, have been trying to address the challenges of stagnating productivity of crops and decreasing agricultural growth. Mechanization has been recognized as a core area of intervention by these policies and programmes for addressing these challenges. From the collected data, IFPRI (2016) generated a report titled as “Mechanization in Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP): A Review of Policies and Programmes with a focus on Indian EGP”, Report submitted to Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra under the Objective 3; Activity 3.6.2 of SRFSI project AUS aid (ACIAR & DFAT) funded and CIMMYT lead implemented by NARES in EGP.
