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The need of farm equipments has increased in the wake of shortage of agriculture labor, changing climate conditions, short lead time between two crops, need of crop diversification, and augmented consumption demand.

National policy on agricultural mechanization states that it should lead to a sustainable increase in yields and cropping intensity and should apply to all types of farmers including small and marginal ones in different regions of the country, particularly rain-fed areas.

Agriculture mechanization offers good opportunities in equipment manufacturing, which can be divided into various categories based on their functionality like, sowing, tilling, cutting/threshing and winnowing.

In the last month's issue, we at DARE did an article on Combine Harvester--a farm equipment that combines processes like cutting, winnowing, threshing and collection of grains.

(Check for this article: http://bit.ly/HQq9K)

Agriculture being a major industry in India, the need of farm equipments seems to be huge--tapping it on regional basis would be a good possibility to explore.

(Photo taken near Patiala, Punjab) 

Fri 06 Nov 2009 16:07:47 IST 

Vivek Kumar