Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Production of large-scale agricultural machinery declined in the first half of 2010

In the first half of the year, large-scale agricultural machinery production declined. In the first half of the year, the output of crop harvesting machinery increased from a year-on-year decrease of 3% in the first quarter to 2.8%; the output of large-scale tractors decreased from 24.3% in the first quarter to a decrease of 10.4%; the output of medium-sized tractors increased by 11.9%, which was a drop of 30.9 percentage points from the first quarter; The output of small tractors increased by 29.5%, which was 9.4 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter. In June, the output of large, medium and small tractors all declined compared with the previous month.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture, as of June 30, the nationwide implementation of agricultural machinery purchase subsidy funds has cumulatively subsidized 3.25 million farm machinery and equipment (sets), benefiting 2.36 million rural households, and subsidy funds have spurred farmers and agricultural production and operation organizations to invest 31.9 billion yuan. Since mid-June, fund settlement and equipment supply have become hot spots in the near future. The first batch of agricultural machinery purchase subsidy funds has entered the final stage.