Agricultural Mechanization to Increase

The agricultural mechanization coefficient in Iran currently stands at its highest of 1.65 horsepower per hectare.
The coefficient is expected to increase to 2.1 hp/ha by the end of the Sixth Five-Year Development Plan (2017-21), the head of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Agricultural Mechanization Expansion Center said.
Kambiz Abbasi added that 20 trillion rials (about $162 million) worth of banking facilities will be granted to farmers for agro mechanization during the current Iranian year (March 2018-19), IRNA reported.