“Smart Tractors” in the Sahel

The Washington Post: A farmer works on a Smart Tractor with a tiller attachment in Kaduna, Nigeria. With the Smart Tractor, a farmer can knock off in one day what he could do manually in 40 days. (Jehiel Oliver/Jehiel Oliver)

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’

Hello Tractor Website