Scenario+3



Ogbay is a 36 year old farmer in Ethiopia where he owns a few acres of land and runs a sharecrop to produce food for locals. He refuses to work for the big corporate farms owned by multinational corporations who want to grow only a few types of crops for export in exchange for very little money. He knows the conditions and wages are poor in those farms, and wants to get local villagers to participate in sharecropping. Ogbay needs better farming equipment for his workers. He has arthritis and has frequent neck and back pain from the hunched over position he takes while tilling the land with a hoe. He would prefer a more ergonomic way to take care of his land in less time and with less people. He knows that he cannot afford a big gas fueled tractors and he would like to reduce the cost of feeding and caring for oxen, which take away from his total profits. He is also suffering from depression and would like to have a more social job but it is not possible due to the long hours of often solitary and strenuous work.