Mechanization in Iran

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Comment by mo on October 8, 2009 at 12:18pm

i am mo from ferdowsi university of mashad

Comment by Scott E. Justice on October 3, 2009 at 7:44am

I am working with a project in Mazar-e-Shaif (northern) Afghanistan in promotion of Chinese agricultural machinery. The market in tractors and combines there has historically been Russian oriented but things are changing. Indian, Pakistani Chinese are now coming in small but growing numbers. But I have yet to see any Iranian agro-machinery, at least in the north and central areas. It's may not be surprising that Iranian agro machinery is not widely available in Afghanistan due to the presence of donors and forces who are opposed to trading with Iran. That said I just found where Iran exported 800 M USD of products to Afghanistan last year. So I have question to this group...why not agro machinery? We have started a new program there on harvesting machinery and I see these 50,000 USD Niva combines that, other than having a straw catchers on the back, have nothing really over the much cheaper Pakistani / Indian combines. I guess my question is are there any less expensive Iranian combines available/or already being exported to Afghanistan? Perhaps in Herat? Are there any Iranian agro-machinery dealers in Afghanistan? Also, there are now national and regional ag fairs in Afghanistan that Iranian agro-machinery companies could be participating in.

Comment by Graham Edwards on May 24, 2009 at 11:13am

thank you Hossein,The distances travelled by farmtractors & farm trailers appear to be long for the waste-removal systems of Iran[where trucks are not available,especially to medium-sized towns and certain Crop-types..Since about one third of the Iran-Workforce is involved in Food-production & the population is growing rapidly much of the precious fossil-fuel is clearly being used therein.crops such assugar-cane &sugar-beet,wheat,barley,some fruits and vegetables do have to travel [sometimes]over considerable distances to the processing points.graham

Comment by hossein on May 24, 2009 at 10:03am

I am a new member so I will try to adjust to you.I hope we cam help to mechanization in Iran.

Comment by Graham Edwards on May 23, 2009 at 2:46pm

it is particularly interesting to know how the Iran tractor-manufacturing company is doing as it began with Romanian support and moved to Massey-Ferguson & perkins engines.Its volume seems to have been growing ,exporting has become an interesting volume but little is known about the implements most commonly-used...e.g.trailers sprayers,spreaders.Does anyone know the statistics of work-task[ag-implement hours per year and when?]usage???Just how dry is it and which inmplements are used to retain soil moisture ???Graham

Comment by Trevor Cree on September 2, 2008 at 5:16pm

In June 2008 I had the opportunity to visit Iran and see for myself how dynamic agricultural mechanization development is at the present time. For an agricultural engineer it is certainly an exciting place to be. The Global Farm Machinery Network now has a number of members from Iran and it would be useful to hear from them about the work they are currently undertaking, whether it be in precision farming, conservation agriculture, testing, research or any other field.