Greaves Cotton, a leading engineering company that makes a range of engines and heavy equipment, will grow its presence in farm equipment and implements business with offer of a complete range of solutions.

The company on Monday unveiled a new power tiller, developed using its own R&D capabilities, under the brand name ‘The Bahubali’. It is priced in the range of ₹1.56 lakh and ₹1.76 lakh and powered by a new 14 HP engine.

“ We cater to a wide range of products and services to the farmers to help them right from ploughing to harvesting,” Nagesh Basavanhalli, Managing Director & CEO, said at the company’s plant at Ranipet near Chennai.

“We offer solutions across all stages -- irrigation to soil preparation, planting, plant protection, harvesting and to post-harvest cycle. Our product range includes six types of power tillers, six types of rotavators, two types of power weeders. Our objective is to position ourselves as a complete solution provider,” said M Mohanan, President – Farm Equipment Business. The company’s major target segments for farm equipment business are small and medium farms, gardens and landscaping categories.

The company has a capacity to produce 6000-7000 units of power tillers and 10,000 units of other farm equipment and implements. All these are made at its Ranipet factory.

Mohanan said the company has been strengthening its dedicated R&D facility and state-of-the-art large farm equipment factory in Ranipet. It has also set up a testing and validation facility inside the factory and will also create capabilities for real-world usage pattern tests across various terrains.

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