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Article: Pakistan: Tractor industry and budget 2008.
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- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- June 24, 2008
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Byline: sanjayV03
Today Tractors and agricultural equipments play a major role in mechanized farming instead of conventional way of ploughing lands. Due to shortage of water resources, input prices of agricultural seeds & fertilizer, lack of research & development and having no advisory services to farmers, the total land utilization could not be significantly increased. In 1991 it was 21.82 MHa and till 2006-07 it is 23.13 MHa, despite the fact that tractor population has been increased over last 10 years which is 500,000 today. The tractor sale in the year 1999 was about 20,000 units whereas today it is 70,000 units per annum. Major role to finance the ...