Latest news about Factor E Farm. It's years since I started to follow the story of the OpenTractor, or LifeTrac. Back then I had a long Skype chat with Marcin Jakubowski about its relevance in Nigeria. We both felt that if his work at Factor E Farm could be seen to have relevance in Africa - as part of sustainable development and technology transfer -  then this could be beneficial all round.

When John Dada was first trying to find a way to get a tractor for Attachab - a couple of years back - we revisited the idea of LifeTrac - hoping we might be able to get one. John and Marcin exchanged a few emails, but at that point it seemed:

Now it seems things have moved on. See below for the blog with more details. It says "Van has been going nuts assembling LifeTrac frames". Maybe we are moving towards a time when we could get the parts to make a lifeTrac - a time when the skills, creativity and enterprise of Marcin and his team could start to impact on people in the Dadamac community.

I don't have skills or finance to make it happen - but someone might - and it looks like the possibility is drawing closer.
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Fri 27 May 2011

Greetings from Factor e Farm.

Life has been busy around here.

We’re in the middle of a production run, so we’re working pretty much round the clock. What’s cool is that as we’re building things, we’re finding all these things to improve about the process. There’s a lot of room to grow, and we’re pumping out a lot.

Here’s a few photos of the past week. (more at http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/05/production-run-update/ )