Despite the potential benefits that ripping technology holds, its uptake has been slow and access to such technology remains low in some areas of the world, such as across East Africa.
As such, a number of public-private partnerships have sprung up with the aim to encourage innovative techniques to promote the use of conservation agriculture and showcase to farmers the advantage of climate-smart farming.
One such project, spearheaded by several private players including Corteva and agricultural machinery companies John Deere and Hello Tractor, together with civil society organisations such as PAFID (Participatory Approaches for Integrated Development), is soon to be underway in Narok, Kenya, after several setbacks due to weather and COVID-related complications.
The project, coordinated by CGIAR and funded by both the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the EU, envisages four demonstration plots aimed at showcasing how ripping technology can improve agricultural productivity, resilience, and soil carbon storage.
A key innovation of this project is the integration of minimum till tractor services into a digital platform service for booking and routing tractors, created by agro-tech company Hello Tractor, enabling tractor providers to add ripping to the services they provide.
In this way, the project aims to broaden access to ripping services, including to smallholder farmers, according to CGIAR.
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