By Katlego Sekhu
Nothing is impossible in today’s world and a farmer in India proved that.
The farmer invented a scooter that can climb trees. Now called the tree scooter, he invented it to help him scale palm trees and harvest nuts.
He says there is a scarcity of workers in his area and the labour cost is too high. He invented the machine to solve this problem. He hopes to help other aging workers with this invention.
The tree scooter can harvest 300 areca palms in a day. This is more than three times the amount that was harvested traditionally per day.
Ganapathi Bhat, the man who invented the scooter says that his life is complete now.