Agricultural tractors on Russian market (based on the International exhibition “Agrosalon 2018”)

The review of an exposition of the agricultural tractors presented at the international exhibition "Agrosalon 2018" which was taking place in Moscow from October 9 to October 12 is provided. Along with domestic manufacturers and the CIS countries: Petersburg Tractor Plant, the Rostselmash, the Bryansk tractor plant, the Minsk tractor plant), the products were exhibited and advertized by also leading global manufacturers of agricultural tractors: AGCO (USA) (Fendt, Challenger, Massey Ferguson, Valtra), Deere & Co (USA), Case New Holland (CNH) (USA). CLAAS (Germany). The Market of agricultural tractors of the Russian Federation is in a quantitative sense comparable to the markets of leaders of the European Union countries: Italy, Germany, France. The available qualitative differences are explained by features of agricultural production, the sizes of the agricultural enterprises and their infrastructure, a ratio in the park wheels and caterpillars tractors, solvent demand and other factors. In formation of the market of tractors the following directions gain development: accent shift towards tractors of high power with simultaneous strengthening of positions of tractors with driving wheels of the identical size (4k4b), special attention to caterpillars which are offered in options: traditional - two-caterpillar and nonconventional - four-caterpillar at which driving wheels of tractor 4k4b are replaced with the modules of triangular shape supplied with rubber-reinforced tracks .The following feature of the domestic market of tractors is existence of the real competition in segments: powerful tractors 4k4b, universal tractors of average power and also caterpillars of high power that is defined by a variety of offers and openness of the market of the agricultural equipment. The feature of the market is its heterogeneity on technological level of the offered machines that is explained first of all by different purchasing power of buyers. Studying of exhibits shows that the trends of development of designs of tractors, their units and systems noted by us when studying exhibitions "Agrosalon 2014" and "Agrosalon 2016" keep the actuality. Keeps actuality also a question what has to be the mass caterpillar tractor for agricultural production of the Russian Federation.

the Market of agricultural tractors, towing classes of tractors, wheel tractor, two- caterpillar tractor, four - caterpillar tractor, the caterpillar modules of three angular shape, rubber-reinforced tracks