{"id":989045,"date":"2021-12-17T11:04:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T11:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrand.ai\/connect\/?p=989045"},"modified":"2021-12-17T11:08:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T11:08:22","slug":"savanna-circuit-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/2021\/12\/savanna-circuit-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Savanna Circuit Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Expanding opportunities for agri-mechanisation among smallholder farmers in Kenya. The experience of Mama Grace Taka Okello, Busia County. <\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Kenya\u2019s adoption of agri-mechanization is very low at only 15%, in a country where there are only two tractors for every 2,500 acres and some 70% idle productive land. Limited purchasing power and the absence of sustainable agri-mechanization business models are some of the hindrances to adoption.<\/span> Buying a tractor to plough 1-2 acres of land is not viable. <\/span><\/p>

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To improve on smallholder farmers access to use of tractors, the Hello Tractor company aggregates demand and connects fragmented farms to tractor services, using a simple Hello Tractor Mobile Application. Using a tractor to plough a farm is 40 times faster than deploying 40 people to plough manually, is 2.5 times cheaper, enables the farmer to plant on time, gain 63% average savings and an upwards of 3 times in yields. A ripped farm also gives the farmer a uniform growth and crop height.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mama Grace Taka Okello, is a smallholder farmer in Bwiri village, Funyula in Busia county. She is one of the farmers who are currently embracing agri-mechanisation to improve efficiency of farm production and increase outputs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kenya\u2019s adoption of agri-mechanization is very low at only 15%, in a country where there are only two tractors for every 2,500 acres and some 70% idle productive land. Limited purchasing power and the absence of sustainable agri-mechanization business models are some of the hindrances to adoption.<\/span> When I met with Grace, she had just hired a tractor for planting, at a fee of KES2,200 per acre, for her 4 acres (total of KES8,800). She seemed so happy with the deal, so I asked her about what she could have spent to hire farmhands to do manual planting. <\/span><\/p>\n

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To plant 1 acre in one day, she would need 20 farmhands, each earning KES300\/day, and then she would have to provide them with some food averaging KES1,500 thereby totalling KES7,500 to plant 1 acre and KES30,000 to plant the 4 acres. Through mechanisation, Grace saved KES21,200. This was made possible through an amazing collaborative initiative between <\/span>Hello Tractor<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Kenya Catalytic Jobs Fund<\/span><\/a> and other organisations like <\/span>Farm to Market Alliance<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Cereal Growers Association<\/span><\/a> . <\/span><\/p>\n

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To improve on smallholder farmers access to use of tractors, <\/span>Hello Tractor<\/span><\/a> aggregates demand and connects fragmented farms to tractor services, using a simple Hello Tractor Mobile Application. Using a tractor to plough a farm is 40 times faster than deploying 40 people to plough manually, is 2.5 times cheaper, enables the farmer to plant on time, gain 63% average savings and an upwards of 3 times in yields. In just a few months, the company has reached some 23,000 smallholder farmers with tractor services and the transformation in farm efficiency is on an upward trajectory.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Expanding opportunities for agri-mechanisation among smallholder farmers in Kenya. The experience of Mama Grace Taka Okello, Busia County. Kenya\u2019s adoption of agri-mechanization is very low at only 15%, in a country where there are only two tractors for every 2,500 acres and some 70% idle productive land. Limited purchasing power and the absence of sustainable…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":989047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact-case-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989048,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989045\/revisions\/989048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}