Rostselmash is ready to fully cover the needs of Uzbekistan in forage harvesters, Andrey Kolesnikov, director of the sales department for Asia at the Russian company, said.

The AgroExpo Uzbekistan 2021 exhibition has opened in Tashkent, in which about 20 companies from Russia take part.

“Rostselmash is ready to fully provide the required volume of forage harvesters for the farmers of Uzbekistan through joint production in Uzbekistan. There is a potential for the localization of such production,” Kolesnikov said at the Uzbek-Russian roundtable within the framework of the exhibition. RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

He recalled that in 2020, the Russian company assembled the first five Don 680 harvesters on the basis of the assembly plant in Chirchik. According to estimates, the need of Uzbekistan’s agricultural sector for forage harvesters of this class is 100 units.

“We would be very pleased if our production in the republic was considered as the main supplier of forage harvesters,” Kolesnikov added.

At the end of 2018, Rostselmash acquired a 9.38% stake in the “Chirchik Agricultural Machinery Plant” JSC worth about a million dollars and began assembling equipment at the premises of this enterprise.

To date, the Russian company has increased its share in the Uzbek enterprise to 11.46%. To date, on the basis of the Chirchik plant, in addition to Don 680 combines, 346 units of Vector grain harvesters have been assembled, as well as ten RSM 2375 tractors.