Several research institutes in the world are engaged in the study of draught animal power exploited in rotary mode i.e. with the animal that turns around in a circular path.

This power is utilized by farmers to move pumps or other rural equipments.

There is a significant bibliography of the researches in progress on the matter. Part of it is here presented.

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Further, several centers in the world are engaged - in the working animal sector - in the vocational training for the education of farmers of the developing countries.

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The most significant publication on the hundreds million working animals, engaged in agriculture, is represented by the volume 20-2013 of Integrated Crop Management that is on Mechanization for Rural Development: A review of patterns and progress from around the world , published by the FAO.

An other source of information is the article Human and animal power – The forgotten renewables of R.J. Fuller and Lu Aye in Renewable Energy, Volume 48, December 2012, pages 326-332.

For the promotion of the working animal welfare is possible to mention among the othersThe Brooke and ACE