Long before he became an engineer, Jerry Mallo had watched farmers in Plateau State lose crops they had no equipment to preserve.
Tomatoes became rotten in baskets, yams went soft in the sun, and cassava was often left unprocessed.
The machines that could have helped were either too expensive or not built for Nigerian farms. Today, Mallo is designing those machines himself in the very state that inspired him, making affordable, locally made tractors and processors built for Nigeria’s terrain and smallholder farmers.
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