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industrrial training report on PUNJAB TRACTORS LIMITED


INDIAN TRACTOR INDUSTRY
Introduction –
India being a predominantly agricultural country, where agriculture is the
life and blood of the economy, has been a traditional manufacturer of
different types of farm machinery and implements. However, the use of
advanced agricultural techniques in India started only in early sixties.
Modernization and tractor-ization in Indian agriculture is only post
independence phenomenon. One of the achievements of green revolution has
been that the farmers increasingly realized the advantage of tractor-ization
for obtaining the timeliness of operations. This would happen only because of
awareness of new farm technology among the farmers, rise in the level of
their income and education.
The biological source of energy especially bullocks, could not cope with the
requirements of the changed situation. Therefore, introduction of tractors
got accelerated in several agriculturally advanced states of country like
Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, etc. Tractors were introduced to Indian
agriculture in early twenties. Sh. Joginder Singh was the first farmer to
use a tractor, called a steam plough then, on the 12000 acres estate he had
inherited in the remote Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh. The demand of
tractors rose sharply in last two decades. However, the rate of adaptation
of tractors is different in different parts of the country. Punjab occupies
number one rank in this regard. Punjab possesses only 1.5% of the
geographical area of the country; the density of 85 tractors per hectare in
Punjab is the highest as compared to national average of 10.5 tractors per
hectare.