Valtra dona A tractor to a school of agriculture in South Africa

Valtra has donado a tractor To93 HiTech to the School of Agriculture Weiveld in South Africa. Weiveld Is the biggest school of agriculture of the country, with 600 students, but his fleet of tractors has decades of antiquity. The donation includes a service on a long-term basis, the learning and the supply of spare parts. Founded in 1994, after the end of the apartheid, the school is free for the students.

“We prefer to teach to the people to produce his own foods in place of donar foods for them. To the students of the school teachs them how uses the modern agricultural technology with efficiency and hygiene. This helps to his perspectives of employment and provides a hand of qualified work to the exploitations, benefiting so much to the agricultural sector as to the whole country ”, affirmed Jari Rautjärvi, administrative director of Valtra, in his speech in the ceremony of donation.

The tractor donado was part of a campaign that began in November happened in the fair Agritechnica in Hannover, Germany. Almost 6.500 visitors to the stand of Valtra took advantage of the opportunity to paint his footprints dactilares and greetings in one of the sides of the new tractor N113 HiTech. The tractor exhibited afterwards by other exhibitions during all the winter and was auctioned to finals of May, in the auctions of Richie Bros in Meppen, Germany. The best postor was a farm of Baviera, that paid 70.000 euros by the tractor. The gains of the auction would allocate to the new tractor To93 HiTech for the school, in addition to services of support, learning and spare parts.