A. Adekunle
Feb 25, 2026 · 6 min read
Walk into any village during planting season and you’ll meet farmers who know precisely what they need to grow more — they just can’t access it on time.
The mechanization gap is not really about machines. It’s about scheduling, financing, training, parts, fuel, and offtake. Drop a tractor into a place that doesn’t have those things and within three seasons it’s a rusting monument.
Fermachi’s thesis is that you build the infrastructure first and let the tractors follow. Hubs, agents, training, telemetry, financing — once that scaffolding exists, more machines is a feature you can ship.