With the proliferation of mechanized harvesting equipment, you might not think it – more than half a billion smallholder farmers around the world still rely on the primitive sickle for their farming. Among the terraces of Vietnam, the cassava fields of Kenya and the rice paddies of Bangladesh, this curved steel blade remains the guardian of food security.
Why is the sickle still the ‘invisible champion’ of modern agriculture?
1️⃣ Terrain adaptability: in hilly, terraced and other areas inaccessible to machinery, the sickle is the only viable harvesting tool.
2️⃣ Economy: with average daily incomes of farmers in developing countries generally below $5 per day, a hundred-dollar-class scythe is more realistic than a ten-thousand-dollar harvester.
3️⃣ Eco-value: Zero fuel consumption and zero emissions perfectly match the trend of sustainable agriculture, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has listed it as a key category of small agricultural tools to be promoted.
We are redefining “a good sickle”.
As a manufacturer of agricultural tools with a history of 20 years, we understand that tradition is not the same as old-fashioned. Through continuous innovation, we are giving new life to this millennia-old tool.
Join the agricultural tool revolution.
While others are talking about drones and the Internet of Things, we’ve chosen to dig deeper into the ‘forgotten basic tools’. Because we know: “True agricultural innovation is not about replacing tradition, but about making it more relevant to the needs of the land.”
