Ian Boyd from SwaziTrac explains how the John Deere dealership operates in Swaziland, while a John Deere Financial representative walks through financing options that help farmers afford equipment.
Good afternoon, my name is Ian Boyd. We Swaziland at a John Deere dealership called Swazi Track. Swazi Trac has been a family owned business for about the past 30 years. So Swazi Trac is a fully fledged sales team. We have three sales personnel specifically dealing with three regions of Swaziland. That coupled with the managing director who has over 35 years of John Deere experience, we believe we're able to offer any solution for any agricultural requirement within Swaziland and be able to support that. Our most common tractors sold in Swaziland are the smaller three cylinder 75 horsepower or 56 kilowatt, which is a more economical tractor and far cheaper for the market. These are more commonly used by the informal farmers and some of the smaller operations, naturally we deal in the bigger tractors for the more commercialised farmers. Those being mainly in the sugar industry as well as the maize sector within the John Deere basket of goods. We also sell the Gator equipment as well as the turf equipment and golf equipment. With regards to our principles and our visions and missions within Swaziland, we fully believe in we cannot sell what we cannot fix. We're fully behind our product and fully behind the support we get from John Deere. As a manufacturer, we believe that it's critical in any machinery that you do sell, specifically the cost incorporated actually investing in a farming operation. You need to be able to fully maintain those machines and ensure as efficient operations as possible. And that's the support we guarantee to our customers. And we like to ensure that that happens at all times.
For the past seven years we've been privileged to provide financial solutions for Swaziland and for the customers of John Deere in Swaziland to be able to procure the machines that is sold by our dealer here. So John Deere Financial's only purpose is to make it more affordable for our customers to buy our machines. That doesn't mean we're only focusing on big clients. We're focusing on everybody. So from the smallest customer to our big customers, we provide you with a financial solution. We make it affordable for you to buy our equipment in two ways. The first one is we structure our facilities to suit your cash flow needs. And the second one is we make it more affordable by looking at the best interest rates that's available in your country. So I really want to ask our customers, come and visit our dealership, come and have a look at the machines that's available here, come and speak to the salespeople and then also ask them about the solutions that's provided by John Deere Financial. So let's help you to make it affordable to buy our machines.
