2023-01-05 00:00:00 Rural people depend heavily upon agriculture either as farmers, casual labourers, workers in agro-based industries, traders in agricultural produce or as hire service providers. One of the principal causes of poverty among smallholder farmers is the lack of farm power (labour saving tools and equipment, animal and mechanized power) and importantly access to it. Farm power embraces all forms of power inputs in agriculture and the commercialization of its products, ranging from human inputs, animal traction, engine driven technologies, together with associated tools and implements . Lack of availability and access to farm power by small farmers is a key factor that leads to a decline in production and consequently farm output and environmental issues. Timeliness of farming operations can also have a critical effect on crop yields. Delays in planting after the optimal date can amount to yield penalties of up to one percent per day of delay. Hire services, be they rental, custom or leasing services, can commonly be found in many countries and concern production, harvest, post-harvest and marketing operations. The most popular hire services encountered are those devoted to: Land preparation, Planting, Spraying, Threshing, Shelling , Crop residue management, Transportation etc. In rural areas of many developing countries, consumers of hire services are typically smallholder farmers within village communities cultivating less than one hectare of land. Providers of hire services in this context are primarily farmers themselves who have invested in equipment, both for their own use and because they have identified a potential for hiring services to their local markets. In more sophisticated settings with more rigorous demands and better rewards, specialised service providers commonly emerge. Realistically the option that many small-scale farmers have is hiring power services from neighbours or service providers. Hiring the power service spreads the cost and brings the engine powered operation into the realms of financial possibility for many small-scale farmers.