OREANDA-NEWS. October 29, 2012. Kirovsky Zavod presented novelties of agricultural engineering at exhibition “Agrorus’. On opening day Minister of Agriculture of Russia Nicolay Fedorov personally acquainted with products of the Group and appreciated advantages of new machinery directly from the cabin of Kirovets tractor K-9430.

This year Kirovsky Zavod presented to the guests and participants of exhibition-fair “Agrorus’ its last developments in the area of agricultural engineering – general-purpose tractor Kirovets K-9430 and universally hoed Kirovets-Pronar. The machines were placed on an open ground immediately at the entrance to exhibition pavilion No 7. Moreover, visitors and participants of the exhibition were able to take consultations and ask questions about particularities of the presented machines and activity of Kirovsky Zavod at the exhibition stand of the Group placed inside the pavilion.

On 27 August, on the opening day of the exhibition the machinery of Kirovsky Zavod was presented to Minister of Agriculture of Russia Nicolay Fedorov and Heads of Agricultural Sector accompanying him. Director General of JSC Kirovsky Zavod Georgy Semenenko told the distinguished guests in details about the process of development and production prospects of a new tractor of series K-9000. Georgy Semenenko noted that the machines of this series were competitive by their characteristics with the best foreign analogues and however, for 30% cheaper than the foreign products. New Kirovets is able to work with any wide-coverage and combined tools of Russian and foreign production and it can perform all major agricultural works from plowing and cultivating to harrowing and planting.

Director General of Kirovsjy Zavod also drew attention of members of the delegation to the fact that the batch production of Kirovets tractor K-9000 would start this autumn already and by the end of 2012 the enterprise planned to produce about 40 machines. And in the following year about 300 items of new machinery will go from the assembly line of St Petersburg Tractor Plant. Afterwards Minister of agriculture Nicolay Federov and members of the governmental delegation examined the universally hoed tractor Kirovets-Pronar with capacity 180 horsepower. According to the expert estimates a new machine must be highly competitive with the machinery of other producers in this class and will be in wide demand at the market.

At the end of the presentation Minister of Agriculture of Russia came up to the cabin of Kirovets tractor K-9430 and proved personally how the equipment of new generations conforms to up-to-date standards and comfortable for the operator’s work. According to the results of the meeting the participants highly evaluated products of Kirovsky Zavod and agreed that development of the agricultural complex in Russia would be impossible without qualitative and affordable national agricultural machinery.