The number of tractors, combines and trailed agricultural machinery in our country decreased from 2018 to 2022. Such data was published by the Department of Statistics of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
At the end of 2018, there were 231,6 thousand tractors on Russian farms, in 2019 – 225,9 thousand, in 2020 – 222,6 thousand, in 2021 – 217 thousand. At the end of 2022, there were 214,9 thousand tractors in the parks, which is 7,2% less than the figure five years ago.
However, the production of agricultural machinery in Russia has been growing all this time. In particular, the increase in the number of tractors for agriculture and forestry produced over five years was 49%. The number of such vehicles during this period increased from 7,089 to 10,593 thousand units.
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