{"id":231288,"date":"2026-06-08T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231288"},"modified":"2026-06-08T06:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:57:11","slug":"solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231288","title":{"rendered":"Solar-powered micro electric tractors bring light to farmers in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An electric tractor that\u2019s entirely powered by the sun could boost crop yields for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and in doing so, improve access to electricity. Developed by Aftrak, a business spun out of Loughborough University, in England, the waist-height \u201cmicro electric tractor\u201d powers itself forward&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electric tractor that\u2019s entirely powered by the sun could boost crop yields for farmers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231288-solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi.jpg",1182,665,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231288-solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231288-solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231288-solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231288-solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231288-solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi.jpg",1182,665,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231288-solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi.jpg",1182,665,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231288-solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231288-solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231288-solar-powered-micro-electric-tractors-bring-light-to-farmers-in-malawi-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}