Machinery/Equipment

 

As a sisal plantation the farm had extensive array of equipment and machinery to deal with the production and processing of agricultural output.  Majority of this equipment has been looted since the farm had been abandoned.  To get the farm on the road new equipment will  have to be purchased and hired depending on the nature of the work to be done. 

 

The equipment required is listed below :

 

· Bulldozer (D6 or D7 Caterpillar, to hire or purchase) :

· Grader ( for road preparation, to hire or purchase) : 

· Backhoe ( for drainage clearing, with extensive for hole sinking, to purchase) :

· 3 Large Tractors Valmet, Ford or Massey Ferguson(90-120 hp for ploughing and harrow) :

· 2 Small Tractors :

· 3 Disc plough (24 discs) :

· 3 Harrows (24 discs) :

· 2 Seeders (planting equipment) :

· 2 Maize and Bean Harvesters ( tractor pulled) :

· 2 Boom sprayers (for spraying insecticides and liquid fertiliser, tractor pulled) : 2 Large High sided trailers :

· 2 Small trailers

· 3 Ten ton trucks :

· 2 40 ton trucks with trailers :

· 3 4 wheel drive 1 ton pick-up trucks

 

As indicated against some of the equipment, some will be hired as these equipment  will be of no use once the land has been cleared.