India: A giant exporter of Agriculture and Forestry Equipment

India is widely dependent on agriculture and most part of the population in the countryside has farming as their livelihood. Peddy, cotton, maze, potatoes, fruits and plenty other agriculture and farming products are cultivated in India and then the best quality crop and food items, both processed as well as unprocessed are exported to various countries across the globe. As per the recent report a whopping $ 540 million worth farm equipment has been exported to various parts of the world.

Agriculture and forestry are two inexplicable parts of the day to day life, indirectly, due to the massive need of products and goods manufactured and yielded from the sectors. Tractors, power tillers, mowing and farm truck, harvester, round balers, back hoe loader and tree trimmers are the machines that are used to plant saplings, seeds and reap the fruit or trim the trees. Tractors of leading manufacturers like John Deere and Mahindra have their significant presence in the market. Haryana and Punjab reason is having the highest numbers of tractors with farmers, where it is considered a status symbol to own a tractor.

Machinery and equipment such as cotton pickers, rice hullers, potato diggers and manual machines to plant seeds or pick the end products are done in agriculture and forestry. Aquaculture is also comes under the farming segment, as most of the time agricultural ponds are used for fish farming, to save the water and get some benefit out of it. So equipment like fish feeders and disinfectants are utilized here.

India is developing and apart from IT, agriculture is the second most significant contributor for the breakthrough.