$125 Million Invested in Agricultural Mechanization 

Investments worth 40 trillion rials ($125 million) were made in agricultural mechanization in the last Iranian year (March 2021-22), according to Kambiz Abbasi, an Agriculture Ministry official.
“The government aims to increase the figure to 50 trillion rials [$156 million] in the current fiscal year [March 2022-23),” he was quoted as saying by Mizan Online.
According to the official, who is also the head of Agricultural Mechanization Expansion Center, the agricultural mechanization coefficient of Iran presently stands at 1.8 horsepower per hectare. 
About 95% of the agricultural machinery in Iran, he added, are produced locally.
“The first tea harvest combine and rice seedling planter made in Iran were recently unveiled, as production lines have been set up for their industrial-scale production,” he said.
“The tea harvest combine has a 74-horsepower engine and can reap yields from around 2 hectares of farms per day. The machine makes tea production cost effective for farmers, as it reduces production expenses by 60% per hectare.”
Abbasi noted that high wages and low harvest quality have always posed problems in tea production, both of which can be solved using the new combine.
“Iranian experts have succeeded in manufacturing a rice seedling planter that can plant 1.2 hectares of paddy fields with seedlings per day,” he said.