Agricultural Tech Next Gen

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Its already in Europe in the big dairy farms but in africa it will take time

The waru harvester makes sense

In Africa unless looking at 1000acre+ farm for it to make sense. And also maybe hire out to other farms

Not necessarily. There are smaller versions of these machines. Like I know there are hand-driven potato planters and harvesters.

My question: Why can’t we build such machines for our farms?

The Europeans designed the machines from scratch and manufactured them. Must we wait to import the ready made units?

Are our engineers repairers and maintainers only?

The biggest hurdle would be expertise and cost, would be prohibitively high

Talk of expertise but not cost. If we have the right minds we can make such for the Galana kulalu project

The R&D for such a truck would probably run into well over 200M kshs, then build a factory, equipment, labour, fixed and variable costs et al and all the while you can purchase one for 50M Kshs since they will be mass developed

R&D is more or less a one off cost which can easily be absorbed. Production costs are the real problem. Power cost is the most discouraging.