Martin is a writer at Agrimachinery Africa specializing in agricultural machinery, mechanization trends, and farm technology across Africa. His work focuses on tractors, harvesting equipment, irrigation systems, and emerging innovations helping farmers improve productivity and efficiency. Through in-depth industry coverage, he highlights technologies shaping the future of modern agriculture.
Fertiliser is one of the most important variable costs in many commercial farming operations, making the accuracy and efficiency of application increasingly important.
The challenge...
Precision planting is becoming an increasingly important part of modern farm mechanisation.
For crops such as maize, sunflower, cotton and some vegetables, placing seed at...
Kakuzi PLC is moving to make digital technology a more deeply embedded part of its farming operations, creating a dedicated Digital Agricultural Transformation Department...
Potato sorting is moving well beyond traditional mechanical grading.
Across modern packhouses and processing plants, cameras, near-infrared (NIR) sensors, lasers and increasingly sophisticated software are...
The global farm machinery market is entering a sharply divided phase.
In mature agricultural markets, farmers are delaying machinery purchases as weak farm profitability puts...