DAR ES SALAAM, March 31 -- TANZANIAN and broadly African – farmers still largely rely on hand hoes and animal-powered ploughs for tilling their land.

Only a few, those who are relatively more economically capable, can afford to use tractors.

These range from power tillers to well-known brands like Massey Ferguson, New Holland, John Deere, Sonalika, or even Massive.

Unfortunately, all these brands are foreign and the machinery is entirely imported.

Farmers do not use them for luxury or out of preference, they simply have no alternative.

These are the only solutions currently available in the market. After harvesting, very few farmers use machines to thresh their crops separating grains from their stalks.

Most still perform this...