Tractor industries play an important role in the Indian agriculture sector it has a major contributions to the Indian agriculture. In early days tractors bought to India by the means of import from the foreign countries. The main contributions of the tractors are higher productivity and greater output. Tractor is a highly versatile piece of machinery having a multi uses, which are used in Agriculture for land reclamation and various crop cultivation. Tractors are not only used for agriculture cultivation and also used for mode of transport in villages, in electricity generation, in construction for carrying the materials, etc.
Usage of tractors also depends on the different region, the usage of tractors in south India is moderate, and the usage of tractors in eastern and northern states including Bihar, Orissa, Jharkand and Punjab was very good because paddy cultivation in this regions.
INDIAN SCENARIO IN MANUFACTURING TRACTORS India plays an important role in manufacturing tractors in India and also playing major role in exporting tractors. Tractors are manufactured in India by the different manufactures and also with the collaborations with the foreign companies. Here is the list of different manufactures with different collaborators and year of established.
Manufacture Collaborator Year
Eicher Tractors Ltd Gebr,Eicher tractor, West Germany 1961
Gujrath Tractors Ltd Motokov-Praha,Czechoslovakia 1963
TAFE Messy ferguson,UK 1961
Escorts Ltd Moloimport Arazawa zaklady Mechaniczne,Ursus Ploand 1964
Mahindra &Mahindra International harvestor,UK 1965
Escorts Tractors Ltd Ford UK 1971
Hindusthan machine tools Motokov-Praha,Czechoslovakia 1971
Kirloskar tractors Ltd Klochner-Humboldt Deutz,Germany 1974
Punjab tractors Ltd CEMRI,India 1974
Pittle Tractor Ltd 1974
Harsha tractor Ltd Moto import ,Russia 1975
Auto tractor Ltd British leyland,UK 1981
Pratap steel rolling mills 1983
VST Tillers Mitsubishi, Japan 1983
United Auto tractor