anyone has the useful life on this baby, maintenance cost, diesel consumption per acre and the cost of operating??? This is for cost benefit analysis and also compare it with manual work.....coz m thinking 200Gz on small scale..it best be worth it....

Hi Nicky and Jasonhill

Thanks for both your responses.
Like the few I have seen used here, from 15-18HP (11-13KW diesel engines max 20HP will do. Talking from experience, I see potential especially if tested and marketed well. Most rural small scale farmers have 1/2 -5 acre farm holdings and during land preparation/planting season the demand for heavy duty tractors is high and scarce with higher costs.
At the moment, all Agricultural equipment is zero rated duty in Kenya

Operating costs: I will have to work this out later but I belief this is definitely cheaper than large engine capacity (normal) tractor. In farming zones the critical things are availability of support (parts and maintenance-skill). This cannot be compared with manual tilling. Casual labour costs have gone very high with high costs on managing labour and poor quality of work. Most farmers dont prefer to use manual labour anymore fro normal tilling. In some areas Oxen driven tillers are used but these cannot compare with engine operated.

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These thing are very popular with peasant farmers in China... I guess you can't feed 1.5b mouths with jembes and pangas!

Anyone who's used this in Kenya? How was it?

But can you use them as planters? I gues then there will be no strain/vibrations.