On 1/21/05, "Scott Kleinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there are no sources of used machinery, perhaps he could lease > something -- using the funds he has to pay the lease for a specified > time -- with an option to buy later at a specified price. Often you may > be able to apply some of the leasing funds to the purchase price. It may > not be what he wants, but it may be what's available.
Just to let you know, India has very recently licensed the manufacture of an indigenously designed small tractor. I need to do some research to locate the details, but the design has been partly sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology through its entrepreneurship program (TePP). The machine is specifically meant for affordability - small holdings are the norm in India, and such farmers have either been left out of the development matrix or beggar themselves trying to hook into 'shared resource' mechanisation (tragically, nature refuses to cooperate with such well conceived schemes, and cussedly, all the farmers in an area need to plow just about the same day). -- Vickram ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
