A Waikato company which specialises in providing machinery to farmers and agricultural consultants has shipped ten tractors to Tuvalu in the Pacific.
Power Farming is based in Morrinsville and its marketing manager Ross Nesdale says the tractors will be used to help protect the island group from the impacts of climate change and for other important public works.
The contract was put up by the European Union as part of an aid package to help Tuvalu develop better infrastructure.
The tractors were trucked from Morrinsville to Auckland, then sent to Fiji. From there they will be shipped another 1000km to Tuvalu.
