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Vision

Power and Transport for Africa’s Green Revolution

Mission

We are developing a viable, sustainable, mechanization and transport vehicle for small-scale agriculture

Outcome

Thriving, productive small-scale farms

Efficient, reliable agribusiness supply chains

Sustainable rural transport infrastructure

Regional and national economic growth

Challenges • Solutions

Transport Challenge

In sub-Saharan Africa, physical market access is almost as important a constraint as rainfall. Sustaining adequate feeder roads is cost prohibitive.

 

Transport Solution

Bypass the need to build and maintain thousands of miles of feeder roads with vehicles that are engineered for off-road crop transport and cost-effective manufacture.

Mechanization Challenge

Sub-Saharan mechanization initiatives have been mostly unsustainable. The technologies and models rarely fit smallholder needs and constraints. 

 

Mechanization Solution

Combine the utility tractor and truck into a single platform. Drive down the vehicle’s energy requirement, complexity and cost. Design for low investment, local manufacture.

Private Sector Challenge

Rural agriculture needs private sector investment. The private sector needs quality crop at volume, adequate transport infrastructure and farmer mechanization.

 

Private Sector Solution

Create an in-country solution for affordable and sustainable transport and mechanization, shared by agribusiness, governments, enabling entities and benefitting industries.

Team

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Engineering: Dimitris Korres

Korres Engineering developed and proved multiple variants of the enabling technology across four prior prototype vehicle programs. Korres partnered with Prosparity Systems to develop a simple, unique variant adapted for Africa, and an all-terrain multi-purpose agricultural vehicle around it.

Dimitris Korres • Lead Engineer

Dimitris Korres • Lead Engineer

Efficiency • Simplicity • Durability
Dimitris Korres is a successful civil, mechanical and design engineer. Work includes the world’s first all-terrain supercar, relocation engineering for ancient monuments, an electric wheelchair city car and more. 

  • #1 - All-Terrain SuperCar

  • Project #2 - Wheelchair City Car

  • #2 - Wheelchair City Car

  • #3 - Suspension Bridge

  • #4 - Church of St. Peter

  • #5 - Athens Stadium Roof

Advisory Team

Our advisory team are quality individuals highly experienced in business startup, business development and engineering. We will be adding advisors in agronomy, agricultural engineering, manufacturing and other key knowledge sectors.

 

Technology

 

 

                    

Technology overview

In Sub-Saharan Africa, experts agree that boosting the productivity of small-scale farms is essential to food security and poverty reduction. These small, rural farms lack the inputs, training, market access, mechanization, irrigation, roads and transport services needed to move from subsistence to market-oriented production. Efforts to improve this have not modernized smallholder farming. This stifles agricultural growth, sustains poverty and accelerates urbanization, further impacting food security.

Prosparity Systems is developing a low cost, multi-purpose agricultural vehicle to improve the livelihoods and productivity of small-scale farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Prosparity Service Rover Vehicle (SRV) is designed to affordably mechanize cultivation, irrigation and transport for multiple small-scale farms. Prosparity Systems is also developing portable factories for companies to produce and service our vehicle in rural farming areas.

A few virtues and features of the SRV:

  • Does not require roads to transport crops, mechanize farms and supplement irrigation
  • Is designed for low investment, low overhead, local production
  • Is low weight, mechanically efficient, versatile and simple to maintain and repair
  • Engine power is appropriate to smallholder power needs
  • Has high ground clearance with low-tech, long-travel suspension
  • Long-travel suspension auto-levels cargo over highly uneven terrain
  • Has multiple power takeoffs to drive pumps, post-harvest machinery, implements, etc.

Unlike tractors, Prosparity SRVs are designed to affordably mechanize production and transport throughout the cultivation season, while removing the need for conventional road and irrigation systems. One SRV can handle transport and mechanization for a group of small-scale farms, and SRVs and can be built and serviced nearby or on-site at large contract farming operations.

Summary: Prosparity SRVs are not fast or glamourous. They are designed to address on-ground realities of sub-Saharan smallholder agriculture. Their beauty lies in their utility, the sheer amount and variety of work they can do per energy unit and dollar spent. This is the vision of our engineering team and our solution for powering agricultural productivity.