China’s Zoomlion Agriculture Machinery Co., Ltd., a leader in agricultural machinery production, is manufacturing tractors in Kazakhstan in cooperation with a local company, QazTehna.
The plan is to produce up to 700 tractors per year at a plant in Saran in the Karaganda region, the Kazakh Ministry of Industry and Construction announced.
Kazakhstan is one of the world’s largest producers of grain crops, with a total sown area of more than 24 million hectares. The country needs sufficient agricultural machinery to ensure agricultural production in such a vast area.
The renewal of outdated agricultural machinery remains a pressing challenge for Kazakhstan’s agro-industrial sector. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, there are 149,800 tractors in the country today, but the average wear of the machines is very high.
According to the Ministry of Industry, the production capacity of Kazakhstan’s manufacturing plants fully meets the domestic demand for tractors and combines, with more than 80% of all tractors and combines purchased in Kazakhstan in recent years being domestic production.
Kazakhstan has eight plants manufacturing more than ten brands and 120 models and modifications of tractors of different capacities, from 11 to 575 horsepower.
