New Delhi, Feb 14: The Escorts group is displaying certain products for the first time at IETF Õ99 here, including the Farm Trac 60, a self-propelled paddy transplanter and excavator loader.The Farm Trac 60 is a wholly indigenous tractor made for the US market. The three-cylinder, 50 hp power steering tractor is manufactured with US technical and agricultural specifications and is exported as a CKD to the US.The Japanese RR-6 Row paddy transplanter can control soil conditions and depth and spacing of transplanting. Escorts is marketing these machines in collaboration with Yanmar of Japan.
Other displays include the excavator loaders -- the JCB-4CX -- a concept which the company pioneered wherein the machine can excavate and load at the same time.
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