Agricultural engineering is an industry that provides demand inside and outside the country for equipment such as machinery for tillage before sowing, equipment for sowing and planting plants, units for irrigation, irrigation, fertilizing. In addition, a number of crops need harvesting combines and machines for tillage after harvesting.
Agricultural engineering should also produce units for the care of animals, for the processing of feed and their procurement. Note that certain cultures and animals require unique types of equipment and any farm needs additional mechanisms to ensure water supply, as well as equipment for land reclamation operations.
The agricultural machinery industry of Russia is represented by several dozen large manufacturers, which mainly produce grain processing, grain harvesting, sowing equipment, harrows, seed dressers, sprayers, cultivators, cultivators, seeders, mowers, plows, cultivators, precision sowing systems and other equipment. In addition, you can purchase domestic grain dryers, accessories for harvesting silos, tractors, loaders, as well as complexes for storing grain.
Among the enterprises, the following can be noted: Sibselmash-special equipment (Rostekhnologii concern), MPC Argamak, OJSC Kuzembetievsky RMZ, Klaas Vostok LLC, Ivanteyevsky Elevatormelmash, Gryazinsky cultivating plant, Voronezhselmash, Belinskselmash, Agrotechmash, etc.
Domestic agricultural engineering is experiencing quite strong competition from Western manufacturers, whose products, however, are more expensive, which saves Russian manufacturers. In addition, it is quite difficult to get a loan from Russian banks for imported agricultural machines; they are more difficult to service due to the presence of on -board computers on many samples that require highly qualified mechanics. It also gives some advantages to the above plants and firms.
A successful example of how to develop tractor and agricultural engineering is the Republic of Belarus. Preserving the “socialist heritage” and acquiring imported motors and other spare parts, Belarusian manufacturers produce samples with the optimal price-quality ratio, which allows them to successfully conquer the Russian market and supply products to some countries of Eastern Europe, as well as, for example, to Cuba.
Agricultural engineering plays an important role in ensuring the country's food security , therefore, experts are pleased to note that in recent years there has been some growth in this sector of the Russian economy. Some enterprises have taken the “Belarusian path”, equipping the basic equipment with environmentally friendly engines, the use of which is required, for example, in Europe. Thus, the Rostselmash enterprise has so successfully advanced along the path of integrating Western experience into domestic developments that it has received customers in more than twenty countries of the world. Note that Russian equipment of this level is three times cheaper than foreign analogues, not inferior to them in quality, which makes it very attractive for farmers and component manufacturers from other countries.