Our Impact
Extending credit for critical technologies including timely tractor services, improved seed, fertilizer and crop care chemicals provides smallholder farmers including women and young farmers the opportunity to maximize productivity and grow their operations. It is critical to provide all of these services together, as providing just one service without the others isn’t enough to meaningfully raise yields.
2023 Results
- The program successfully reached 709 farmers, directly creating a positive impact on an estimated 3,545 people.
- Provided $300,000 worth of input support and services, resulting in a remarkable doubling of farmers’ yields.
- Tripled the amount of input credit offered to farmers for the third year in a row.
- Empowered women in agriculture, with 89% of our beneficiary farmers being women.
- Promoted gender equality in mechanization services, as over 70% of farmers receiving these services were women.
- Achieved 96% repayment rate for the 2023 irrigation cycle of credit.
- Demonstrated commitment to workforce diversity by hiring and training seven women in 2023. They are among the first women tractor operators in Ghana.
2022 Results
- Provided tractor services to 1,000 farming families in northern Ghana
- The credit program grew by nearly 400%
- Over 50% of the credit went directly to women farmers
- 100% repayment of 2022 irrigated cycle of credit
- 11 women trained and hired in 2022
- Internship with a university student to build her capacity
Previous Years
2021
- Provided tractor services to 600 farming families in northern Ghana
- 46% of the farmers in our communities report that they now have better access to mechanization services
- Income has increased by 118% since 2019 among farmers in Kukua that TFA provides services
- TFA enabled farmers were able to increase productive acres for primary food crops 47% since 2019 in Walewale and 20% Navrongo
- 26% of our farmers are under the age of 30 and are considered youth farmers
- 90% of TFA farms directly benefit women as the leader or partner in their farm’s operation
- New tractor and implements purchased in Ghana, strengthening local agricultural equipment businesses
2020
- Completed NGO registration in Ghana and opened Tractor Services business in Northern Ghana providing tractor-for-hire services directly to smallholder farmers.
- Hired Ghana Operations Manager and Country Director – First two full-time employees
- Trained 16 new tractor operators
- Placed 3 additional used tractors for total of 12 tractors operating in Ghana
- Used operations planning to work over 600 acres per tractor on new tractors vs. Industry average of 168 (IFPRI).
- Success in building TFA’s reputation for providing quality, timely and dependable service
- Piloted extending crop input credit for grain process
2019
- TFA operations move to Ghana and begin working with 5 Farmer Cooperatives in the Ejura and Tamale areas.
- 9 Used tractors sent to Ghana from the United States
- Provided training for operation and maintenance, soil science, no-till principles and business management to 30+ tractor operators and coop business managers
2018
- 3 Tractors operating in Burkina Faso
- $300 USD increase in income per hectare
- Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) show 190% yield increase from tractor tillage vs. hand tillage in compacted fields
