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Chinese farm equipment subsidies are to increase 300 percent to 1.46 billion US dollars this year with targets including doubling of mechanisation in the country’s rice harvest within five years. A special Preview in Beijing heard that momentum like this underlines the crucial importance of Agritechnica, the world’s biggest farm mechanisation event, as shop window, discussion platform and world meeting place for agricultural investors from expanding farming sectors in countries such as China.The Agritechnica Preview in Beijing involved over 90 top officials from government, industry research, press and trade with 11 speakers including China Ministry of Agriculture Mechanisation Director, Fan Xue Min. He highlighted the importance of Agritechnica and his government’s willingness to participate in Agritechnica 2009 with a delegation and also a joint European-Chinese exchange event on agricultural mechanisation during the show in Hanover, Germany November 10-14 November, 2009 (preview days 8 and 9).
Another speaker Mr. Wang Feng, Deputy Director at the Bureau of Agricultural Machinery Administration in Jiang Su province, announced the intention to support several Chinese delegations travelling to the event as well as several exhibitors. Government grants will also be probably available to help Chinese exhibitors to participate in the event according to Wang Feng.
“Our Agritechnica Preview in Beijing emphasises that Agritechnica 2009 covers every mechanisation and technological aspect of Far East farm production from soil care, cultivations, harvesting and storage but also environmental protection measures and the production of energy crops,“ says Leely Zhang, Office Manager, DLG AgroTechService
Another Agritechnica highlight previewed at Beijing: the “World Soil and Water Show” focussing on examples of good cultivation and environmental protection practice in farming worldwide, a subject particularly important in China’s rapidly expanding agricultural production landscape.
Other participants in the Beijing Agritechnica Preview included event chairman Song Yi, editor-in-chief of China’s most important agricultural machinery publication Mechanisation Herald, Zhang Zheng from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences (CAAMS), and representatives from YTO, Dong Feng and Lovell, previous Agritechnica exhibitors. All emphasised the opportunities offered by Agritechnica for valuable European-Chinese communication and information exchange to a background of gathering information on worldwide trends. Highlights of the coming Agritechnica 2009 were presented by Leely Zhang, Office Manager, DLG AgroTechService .
Dr. Dirk Quest, Managing Director of DLG’s test centre for agricultural machinery, presented the main technological trends in Europe for tractors and grain, forage and sugar beet harvesting operations, cultivations, sowing and fertilising as well as electronics, software and bioenergy trends. Gilbert Daverdisse, General Secretary of CLIMMAR, the European organisation for agricultural machinery dealers and maintenance, added an overview of dealership structure in Europe along with key market data and forecasts.
