Registrations of new agricultural machinery plummet 3.5% in the first five months

From January to may, a drop of 3.5% was recorded in the inscription of new agricultural machinery, compared with the same period of the previous year. For categories of equipment, this downward trend has been mainly in tractors and pedestrian-controlled tractors. As for the automotive, has dominated the stability with increases in the sub-segments of dragged, suspended equipment and trailers. also, registration of tractors declined 19% in that period, going from 5.052 units in the first five months of 2009, to 4.090 this year. In pedestrian-controlled tractors, the percentage was reduced by 5%, from 229 from January to May 2009 to 217 in this year. However, in automotive machinery, the inscription was 415, similar to that of the previous year. For its part, dragged or suspended machinery saw an increase of 11.5 per cent, by registering in the first 5 months of the current year with 1,112 units, with 932 units in 2009. Similarly, also grew the inscription in trailers, up 2.5%, from 2.229 units to 2,284 in January-may of this year, according to recent data published by the Ministry of Rural Environment (Marm).

In particular, over the last month of may, registered 938 new tractors, 46 pedestrian-controlled tractors, 176 units of automotive machinery (of which 103 were collection of cereals and equipment for loading 71), 1.166 machinery dragged or suspended and 589 trailers. In the inscriptions of may last year, it should be noted the decline of 10% in the number of tractors and the increase of 15% in automotive. Pedestrian-controlled tractors and machinery washed or suspended have registered a 5% and 19% less, respectively