OREANDA-NEWS. Over five months of 2013 HarvEast Holding has bought more than 150 self-propelled and drawbar farm machines of the leading European and US producers to implement its technical upgrade programme. The investments made over USD 25 million.

In particular, the company purchased 25 Challenger tractors and 7 New Holland tractors with 300 horsepower each, 29 Manitou telescopic forklifts with attached implements for crop raising and livestock breeding, 4 Kinze and Great Plains planters, 4 Kuhn trailed sprayers and 5 PLA MAP self-propelled sprayers, 15 Elmers heavy spring-tooth harrows and 39 Hatzenbichler light spring-tooth harrows, 10 Case cultivators, 7 Challenger self-propelled mowers and 9 Kuhn trailed mowers, 6 Jaguar forage harvesters, 13 Amazone disc harrows, 10 Brochard multiple-purpose trailers and 10 Bourgault grain carts. Also, HarvEast bought equipment for liquid fertilization, pickup balers, fuel tankers, swath makers and other self-propelled and trailed machines. All imported tractors, including those purchased earlier, were equipped additionally with automatic parallel tracking and GPS devices.

"We are working to create a universal farm fleet following a unification policy. The fleet upgrade will help us to reduce production costs thanks to the advanced saving technologies in agriculture and to boost crop yield," stated HarvEast Holding Technical Director Artem Grishunenkov.

We remind that the company established HarvEastRemservis, an independent business unit to make complicated repairs and reduce machinery operational and maintenance costs.

Since its inception in 2011 HarvEast has invested more than USD 50 million to upgrade its farm fleet.