Club of bologna proceedings

Chak CHAKKAPHAK 
In some countries, in Asia in particular, this ar-
rangement of farm machinery testing and certi-
fication has been set up. But many of us are in 
the early stages of establishing official testing. 
At present the manufacturers they are somewhat 
reluctant - they are not eager to send their ma-
chines for testing. So I would like to find out 
maybe some experiences from the floor - from 
Germany, from Italy, etc. Do you have any sug-
gestions on this problem - since you have been 
in this operation for a long long time. 
 
Gastão Moraes DA SILVEIRA 
Brazil 
I come from Brazil, and I work in a tractor te-
sting station. And the relationship between in-
dustry in Brazil and the farmers is ... the Brazi-
lian tractor industry has put pressure on the A-
gricultural Minister and closed one of the trac-
tor testing stations. Now we have only one 
station that works only in the development. I 
think this is a problem: the pressure that in-
dustry puts on the government. 
Lothar FISCHER 
I would like to make two comments. I hope I do 
not misinterpret what you said about the rela-
tionship between the testing stations and the cu-
stomer. It is the same customer to us as well. I 
heard you saying that industry has no interest in 
these tests. Yes we have interest, and I strongly 
believe that to build up a long lasting customer 
relationship can only be done with honest in-
formation. So I do not see a conflict. On behalf 
of what our Brazilian colleague just said: I’m 
not aware of what is going on in Brazil, but I 
don’t understand why the industry would put 
pressure on closing testing equipment, rather 
than using them for the future. It doesn’t make 
sense to close the stations. Maybe there are o-
ther reasons as well, but... we have a relation-
ship in Brazil, and I can check whether they had 
an influence, but I don’t think so. 
 

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