Chinese YTO tractors assembly is launched in Bashkiria

UFA, 25 September 2017. /Bashinform News Agency, Olga Murtazina/. The Chishmy branch of GUSP "Bashselkhoztekhnika" began assembling tractors of the YTO company. This summer, six sets of wheeled tractors came to our republic from China. Four models have already been assembled and tested in different conditions. Experts came to the conclusion that the machinery was not inferior to tractors of the similar class of the Russian production by their traction properties and fuel saving properties.

The Joint Bashkir-Chinese production is organized as part of the investment project implemented by the Chinese company LLC Zhifan, providing for a plant construction on YTO tractors production with 80 - 220 hp capacity in Bashkortostan. The planned volume of investments will be $ 2 billion. The design assembly capacity will be 3 - 5 thousand tractors a year, production - from 10 thousand tractors a year.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture RB, the enterprises of the republican agro-industrial complex will be able to buy tractors of local assembly at half price - 50% of the cost will be covered by subsidies.