Kubota opens farm-tools plant in Binh Duong

Kubota, Japan’s largest manufacturer of farming and fishery machinery, generators and related components, opened a plant in the southern province of Binh Duong on December 3.

The plant, located on 5ha in My Phuoc Industrial Park No 3 in Binh Duong’s Ben Cat district, will be operated by Kubota Vietnam Co Ltd, a subsidiary of the Japanese group.

According to the company, the plant is designed to turn out some 5,000 30-50 horse power tractors and 1,000 combine harvesters per year in its first stage. This will increase to 15,000 tractors and 2,000 combined harvesters in the future.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Diep Kinh Tan said the Kubota plant will widen the supply base of farming tools in Vietnam, save energy, enhance productivity and increase agricultural production.

Locally made engines and tools have a 40 percent share in the local market and the rest are imported from Belarus, China and Japan.

Vietnam now has some 400,000 tractors used in agricultural, forestry and fishery production with a recorded a mechanisation level of 1.16 HP per hectare of cultivated land, with the Mekong Delta at 1.85 HP/ha; the Red River Delta at 0.85 HP/ha and the northern mountainous region at 0.39 HP/ha.

VOV, VNA

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