Club of bologna proceedings

Gastão Moraes DA SILVEIRA
To complement my previous comment, the indu-
stries that we have in Brazil for farm tractors 
are New Holland, SLC John Deere, AGCO, 
VALTRA. And they put pressure on the gover-
nment Minister of Agriculture to close one of the 
testing stations.
 
Chan Joo CHUNG 
Korea 
The testing of agricultural machinery may be 
for the benefit of farmers. Of course certain 
tests may be useful for industry, for develo-
pment. But the end user of the farm machinery 
must be assured by the government of the ap-
propriateness of the farm machinery. So I think 
the procedure - the testing of farm machinery - 
should be done by the government. In our 
country now it’s done by the government, but 
the industry does not want to test the agricultu-
ral machinery. Because it’s time consuming, 
and they believe that they can still sell without 
the tests. 
 
A. Mahmoud El HOSSARY 
We in the developing countries really appreciate 
your testing methodologies. And sometimes we 
specify in our tenders that each machine which 
comes should be certified from a testing institu-
tion. But unfortunately, sometimes certain ma-
chines which are tested according to the Euro-
pean conditions - weather conditions - do not fit 
our conditions. Is there any possibility that you 
test some machines according to our requests, 
in our environmental and agricultural condi-
tions? I believe there is a need for this. Because 
the end user is not only the European customer, 
but also customers from the third word. I will 
tell you one example: I was in Libya three years 
ago, where I found machines working very well, 
but sometimes there were failures caused by the 
high heat, and this reduced the efficiency of the 
machine. I believe that if there is a co-operation 
between both sides - we have testing stations in 
all this area - we could do a lot to modify the 
machines to suit the agricultural conditions of 
the developing countries.