US John Deere in leasing plan for farmers’ groups

Smallholder farmers looking to buy tractors often find that they can’t raise enough cash from their operations to afford one. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Farm machinery maker John Deere will this year start leasing tractors to Kenyan farmer groups in an effort to enhance mechanised farming.

East and Central Africa divisional sales manager Janalize van Buuren said the contractor tractor leasing model will see smallholder farmers encouraged to form clusters of between 20 to 30 farmers.

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