Use of tractor

Mahesh Gosavi

Tractors are very useful to farmers

Tractor, a leader in mechanized farming helps farmers at each and every step of farming starting from land preparation to marketing of produce. All implements required from preparatory tillage, interculturing operations and upto marketing of products can be installed on tractors, for better and comfortable farming. It saves a lot of time and labour of farmers. Large HP tractors from 75 to 80 HP tractors are also now available in market for heavy purpose works like ploughing, harvesting, threshing etc. In this fast developing world, remote control tractors are also successfully tested in some countries.

Use of tractor

Pravin Bhosale

Tractors have created rural unemployment

The main reasons for high agricultural yield in the Western countries is high degree of mechanization of various farm operations. While India being a highly populated country, farm mechanization creates severe problem of rural unemployment. Although tractors are very useful in agriculture, the prices of tractors are not within the reach of ordinary farmers. The marketing price itself only is not the cost of tractors, but expenses required for maintenance & repairing are also incurred in it. The fuel charges have also reached the sky. Again due to thrust on liberalization our farmers are not getting appropriate prices for their products & their expenses both in money & time are also not getting full returns. Above all, due to the increasing population & implementation of new laws of property distribution, the size of land holding is getting reduced. Hence, it has become difficult to afford such a costly machine like tractor.