Mechanised Farming
HP Kapital can also offer different methods and technologies for mechanised farming.This will allow farmers in the region to increase their yields and farm more efficiently.
Mechanised farming comes in the form of tractors, combine harvesters, mechanical ploughs, seed drills and automatic weed control systems.
We can also offer forms of mechanised farming which are organic, not using chemicals or other artificial products to enhance the crop.
Alongside mechanised farming, we can offer a trading platform for the farmers to sell their products both locally and internationally.
This will allow farmers to achieve fairer prices for their produce, further adding to the increased efficiency of mechanised farming to enhance their income streams.
As well as helping the farmers, our trading platform will also help to improve the supply of organic, local farm produce to people around the world.
The vision is to promote uniformity in agriculture marketing by streamlining of procedures across the integrated markets, removing information asymmetry between buyers and sellers and promoting real-time price discovery based on actual demand and supply.
Agro Division was formed in 2022 to improve Africa’s food security and to become self-sufficient by partnering with global innovators in large-scale farming.
HPK Agro Division utilises state of the art technologies to develop safe and nutritious produce by focussing on high-growth consumption with a deep understanding of market needs, continuously seeking to find new and innovative methods to be in harmony with nature, creating long term value for the local communities. With best-in-class logistics, processing and risk management capabilities, we transform food, feed, and fibre to create value for our customers, enable farming communities to prosper sustainably and strive for a more food secure future.
Farm Mechanisation
The following graphic summarises the value chain and the benefits mechanisation delivers.
Sustainable mechanisation can:
- Increase land productivity by facilitating timeliness and quality of cultivation,
- Support opportunities that relieve the burden of labour shortages and enable households to withstand shocks better,
- Decrease the environmental footprint of agriculture when combined with adequate conservation agriculture practices,
- Reduce poverty and achieve food security while improving people’s livelihoods; and
- Reduction in the price of food crops as they are grown within the country, minimising the imports of food crops from other countries, and hence reducing the carbon footprint of the country.
Increasing levels of mechanisation does not necessarily mean big investments in agricultural equipment such as tractors and harvesters. We choose the most appropriate power source for any operation depending on the nature of the work and who is performing it. The level of mechanisation should meet the team’s needs effectively and efficiently. We strive to empower the lives of women. Women play an important role in many farming based communities, and in some countries, up to 80 percent of the total farm labour comes from women. Therefore, power sources (human, animal or machine based) need to be adapted to such necessities from an ergonomic, social, cultural and economic point of view. The reduction of drudgery is a key element of sustainable mechanisation and contributes to reducing women’s hard workload by taking into consideration technologies apt to their needs and improving their access to appropriate forms of farm power.
Our vision focuses on some farming strategies below:
- Irrigated Farming System
- Tree Crop Farming System
- Forest Based Farming System
- Rice-Tree Crop Farming System
- Highland Perennial Farming System
- Root Crop Farming System
- Cereal-Root Crop Mixed Farming System
- Maize Mixed Farming System
- Large Commercial and Smallholder Farming System
- Agro-Pastoral Millet/Sorghum Farming System
- Urban Based Farming System
The below farming techniques are suitable in high density residential facilities.
Our Farm projects are managed by agriculture experts and skilled farmers resulting in higher yields and better-quality produce.
The farm projects are segmented into Open Field Farming, Protected Farming, Hydroponics, Indoor Vertical Farms, Aquaponics and Fruit Orchards through integrated multiple cropping models that are sustainable in the longer term for the soil and for growing good quality farm produce.
Selecting suitable farming practices will include land preparation, sowing, crop management, harvesting and post-harvest farm management. This will enable enhancement in Rural Economy which will further contribute to the country’s GDP along with food security and jobs for local natives.
Commercials and large-scale farming are now in play because of Technological interventions that help in maintaining quality standards, delivery requirements etc.
The technology will also help in
- Tech-powered farming
- Post-harvest optimization
- Market connectivity
Alongside mechanised farming, we can offer a trading platform for the farmers to sell their products both locally and internationally.
This will allow farmers to achieve fairer prices for their produce, further adding to the increased efficiency of mechanised farming to enhance their income streams.
As well as helping the farmers, our trading platform will also help to improve the supply of organic, local farm produce to people around the world.
The vision is to promote uniformity in agriculture marketing by streamlining procedures across the integrated markets, removing information asymmetry between buyers and sellers and promoting real-time price discovery based on actual demand and supply.