“Smart Tractors” in the Sahel
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...