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Mechanical power has been used for centuries for agro/food processing, water pumping and other productive uses, providing some of the most fundamental services required for poverty reduction and human development. Indeed, over the past century, technological advances have helped reduce the drudgery and increase the productivity of human labour through the widespread use of mechanical power. Mechanical power is critical to enhancing the productive use of labour in many ways, directly supporting core day-to-day activities such as transporting and lifting water, irrigating fields, processing crops into edible forms and many more.