Compare and contrast Other Canadian Made products.
There are other soil cultivators sold in Canada that should be looked at before deciding on manufacturing the suggested product. If one were to look on HomeDepot.ca there are a good number of different soil cultivators. One manual cultivator is called a Fiskars Rotary cultivator. Retailing for $37.98 Canadian, the product has a long handle with 6 spiked wheels at the bottom that aerate and churn the soil (HomeDepot International, 2016). Comparing the Fiskar to the suggest product, although the Fiskar cultivates the soil it does not get the soil into rows and for that an addition of a rake would be needed. Other products sold in Canada would be battery and gasoline powered tillers but are over expensive and could not be considered. Simplistic rakes are also sold from between $12-$30 and would require a lot more effort to till an entire field with.
Compare and contrast with products from different nations
At the end of the day the best product in the eyes of a Nepalese farmer will more than likely come down to cost. Living on less than two dollars per day a cheaper option would most likely be favored if it came down to needing a new tool for the farm. So, during the research into the two-wheeled cultivator it was in good measure to also look into other products from other places in the world. A website call Alibaba.com had many different kinds of soil cultivators for various prices. One product the stood out was called a long handle manual hand rotary soil garden cultivator (Lee, 2016). This product is manufactured in Zhejiang China, which is located in the south-eastern area of china, close to the East China Sea. The product from the website consists of a long telescopic handle that is attached to 6 wheels with numerous spikes coming out from each wheel. To operate this product, it is run over the surface of the soil aerating the soil as well as mixing and churning the soil. Comparatively this product does not line the soil in rows but from the pictures it does look like it does a good job aerating the soil. From the website it says that a minimum order of 1000 products and even though the website doesn’t clearly state the price of the item, it is with best estimates it looks like the product will cost $15 each USD. As well the products will have to most likely be shipped overland to Nepal which is a distance of nearly 3400 kilometers. Other items on the website included gas powered tillers and such things but they would be more money than the average farm could even think of spending. As well, products that requires inputs such as fuel would be very expensive to keep running.
There are other soil cultivators sold in Canada that should be looked at before deciding on manufacturing the suggested product. If one were to look on HomeDepot.ca there are a good number of different soil cultivators. One manual cultivator is called a Fiskars Rotary cultivator. Retailing for $37.98 Canadian, the product has a long handle with 6 spiked wheels at the bottom that aerate and churn the soil (HomeDepot International, 2016). Comparing the Fiskar to the suggest product, although the Fiskar cultivates the soil it does not get the soil into rows and for that an addition of a rake would be needed. Other products sold in Canada would be battery and gasoline powered tillers but are over expensive and could not be considered. Simplistic rakes are also sold from between $12-$30 and would require a lot more effort to till an entire field with.
Compare and contrast with products from different nations
At the end of the day the best product in the eyes of a Nepalese farmer will more than likely come down to cost. Living on less than two dollars per day a cheaper option would most likely be favored if it came down to needing a new tool for the farm. So, during the research into the two-wheeled cultivator it was in good measure to also look into other products from other places in the world. A website call Alibaba.com had many different kinds of soil cultivators for various prices. One product the stood out was called a long handle manual hand rotary soil garden cultivator (Lee, 2016). This product is manufactured in Zhejiang China, which is located in the south-eastern area of china, close to the East China Sea. The product from the website consists of a long telescopic handle that is attached to 6 wheels with numerous spikes coming out from each wheel. To operate this product, it is run over the surface of the soil aerating the soil as well as mixing and churning the soil. Comparatively this product does not line the soil in rows but from the pictures it does look like it does a good job aerating the soil. From the website it says that a minimum order of 1000 products and even though the website doesn’t clearly state the price of the item, it is with best estimates it looks like the product will cost $15 each USD. As well the products will have to most likely be shipped overland to Nepal which is a distance of nearly 3400 kilometers. Other items on the website included gas powered tillers and such things but they would be more money than the average farm could even think of spending. As well, products that requires inputs such as fuel would be very expensive to keep running.