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Equity & John Deere agreement to improve farm equipment quality

Equity Group Holdings and farm equipment maker John Deere have signed a comprehensive agreement to offer tractors to the Kenyan market through affordable finance programs for both large-scale and small-scale farmers. The deal was signed during US Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman’s investment roadshow series to the United States by John Deere Head of Business …

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Tractor imports

How to get your hands on affordable second hand EU tractors

By George Munene A com­puter op­er­a­tions su­per­visor by pro­fes­sion, Peter Mu­sakali has cut a niche for him­self within the ag­ri­cul­ture space in help­ing farm­ers source for and ac­quire European second-hand tract­ors and ag­ri­cul­tural equip­ment which are less than half the cost of newly bought tract­ors.  “A new tractor bought from a dealer in Kenya costs about Sh3.5M; this puts mech­an­ised farm­ing …

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