A small company led by Jehiel Oliver in Anacostia, D. C., is bringing small, versatile “Smart Tractors” to Nigera and Niger
He devised a business in which farmers send a text to Hello Tractor’s U.S.-based dispatchers, who locate the nearest GPS-embedded Smart Tractor and ping the service provider. The tractors typically arrive within three days.
Read about how this new tractor and business model are bringing increased efficiency to the farmlands.
Sowing self-sufficiency in Africa with Anacostia-based ‘Hello Tractor’