{"id":8523,"date":"2018-01-09T03:41:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=8523"},"modified":"2018-01-09T03:41:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:41:25","slug":"greaves-cotton-boosts-farm-mechanisation-in-india-invests-in-technology-and-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=8523","title":{"rendered":"Greaves Cotton boosts farm mechanisation in India; invests in technology and R&D"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo Caption :\u00a0Mr. Nagesh Basavanhalli,MD & CEO, Greaves Cotton Limited and Mr. M. Mohanan,President-Farm Equipment Business, Greaves Cotton Limited at the launch of 1st Made-in-India Power tiller- \u2018The Bahubali\u2019<\/p>\n

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Greaves Cotton with a wide range of products to\u00a0improve farm productivity with\u00a0investments in R&D, plant and people<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduces its 1st<\/sup>\u00a0Made-in-India Power tiller- \u2018The Bahubali\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Ranipet, 8 January, 2018:<\/strong>\u00a0 Greaves Cotton, one of the leading engineering companies in India, today announced\u00a0its focus on the farm sector with\u00a0investments in R&D, plant and people to support the growing farm sector in India. As part of its long term diversification strategy, Greaves Cotton announced the launch of a new locally manufactured power tiller under its Farm Equipment Division. With significant headroom to grow farm productivity in India, Greaves Agri aims to boost mechanisation and reduce dependency on human\u00a0labour\u00a0in farming, and has unveiled \u2018The Bahubali\u2019<\/em>, the latest addition to its robust portfolio of farming equipment and power tillers.<\/p>\n

Building on the \u2018Made in India, Made for India\u2019 vision, \u2018The Bahubali\u2019 is the first ever fully locally designed and developed power tiller by Greaves Cotton in India. With\u00a0the new\u00a0high\u00a0power\u00a014HP engine and\u00a0heavy duty performance, it offers best-in-class\u00a0ploughing\u00a0performance with higher tilling depth, excellent fuel efficiency and a rugged body for long life.<\/p>\n

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Speaking about the launch,\u00a0Mr. Nagesh Basavanhalli, MD & CEO, Greaves Cotton Limited<\/strong>said,\u00a0\u201cAs part of\u00a0our strategy, we have invested\u00a0in building capability – people, facility\u00a0&\u00a0technology.\u00a0This will help us strengthen our position in the Agri sector, as we cater a\u00a0wide range of products & services\u00a0to the farmers to help them right from\u00a0ploughing\u00a0to harvesting.\u00a0With the Indian economy rapidly evolving, there is a need to make efficient use of farm machinery to improve land\u00a0productivity\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Greaves is working\u00a0closely with farmers & FPO\u2019s to understand their needs & create farm solutions that promise more yield per acre of farm, especially when we see shrinking landholdings with rapid increase in population & shortage of farm\u00a0labour\u00a0in India.<\/em><\/p>\n

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M.Mohanan, President-Farm Equipment Business, Greaves Cotton Limited<\/strong>\u00a0commented,\u00a0\u201cWe are pleased to announce the launch of \u2018The Bahubali\u2019, our first ever \u2018Made in India\u2019 power tiller. As a full range player in the farm equipment space, Greaves Agri continues to develop equipment to support the farmers in each step of the crop cycle. We will continue to build on the \u2018Make for India\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0vision and plan to introduce more superior quality, reliable products in the market.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Having grown from a small equipment player<\/em> to a large farm solutions & services company<\/em>, Greaves Agri has products for each stage of the crop cycle covering a wide variety of functionality for the farm sector.<\/p>\n

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This\u00a0investment is a part of customer focus at Greaves Agri, with rigorous\u00a0validation\u00a0being integral to the process.\u00a0Its dedicated R&D facility & state-of-the-art large farm equipment factory in\u00a0Ranipet\u00a0manufactures wide range of farm products & has been\u00a0actively engaging with customers across nation.\u00a0Greaves Cotton provides high quality products across all stages \u2013\u00a0irrigation- soil preparation \u2013planting -plant protection- harvesting -post harvest cycle<\/em><\/strong>. To achieve this, it\u00a0undergoes rigorous testing and validation inside factory<\/strong>\u00a0and under real world usage pattern tests across various terrains. Greaves Cotton has sold more than 3 million\u00a0Pumpset\u00a0across India & neighboring countries. As part of productivity enhancement solutions, Greaves Cotton is taking aggressive steps to bring electric & solar pumps for the segment.<\/p>\n

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About Greaves Cotton<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greaves Cotton Limited<\/strong>, a Rs.1800 crore, multi-product, multi-locational company is one of the leading engineering companies in India with core competencies in diesel\/ petrol engines, farm equipment, Gensets& Construction business . The Company sustains its leadership through six manufacturing units which produce world class products backed by comprehensive spares and service through its 3500 plus service outlets across India. More at\u00a0www.greavescotton.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Photo Caption :\u00a0Mr. Nagesh Basavanhalli,MD & CEO, Greaves Cotton Limited and Mr. M. Mohanan,President-Farm Equipment Business, Greaves Cotton Limited at the launch of 1st Made-in-India Power tiller- \u2018The Bahubali\u2019 Greaves Cotton with a wide range of products to\u00a0improve farm productivity with\u00a0investments in R&D, plant and people Introduces its 1st\u00a0Made-in-India Power tiller- \u2018The Bahubali\u2019 Ranipet, 8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8525,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions\/8525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}