Innokentiy Temofeevech "Jim" Zimin (26 November 1902 – 31 August 1974) was a Russian-born Australian peanut farmer.
Zimin designed and built his own peanut digger, which was to receive, in 1949, the first agricultural patent awarded to a resident of the Northern Territory.
Following the Russian Civil War he moved to Harbin, China and was trained as a chauffeur and mechanic at the Young Men's Christian Association.
Their operations received little funding and harvesting was manual; while successful, the venture ceased in 1930, whereupon Zimin relocated to Katherine.
[1] After the war Zimin was faced with dwindling demand and weather fluctuations, crop disease (including Crown Rot) and which were capped by a flood in 1957.