Kolkata, Aug 26 (UNI) Prof.(Dr.) Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur has stated that as a revolutionary step in the history of tractor technologies, CSIR-CMERI will be launching the First Generation E-Tractors in the month of September next, which has the potential to overhaul the current Diesel-intensive Tractor usage practices prevalent across the nation.
Dr. Hirani urged all the MSEs in this regard to come forward with their ideas, visions and existing technologies so that CSIR-CMERI can collaborate and add further value to those potential visionary technology through intensively analyzed Techno-Economics.
The future trend in agriculture would be driven by Artificial Intelligence and Efficient Electronic Architecture, and the R&D course of CSIR-CMERI is already aligned in this direction. The CSIR-CMERI technologies after being deployed in the fields, if requires further improvisation/modifications as per newly evolved challenges/obstacles, will be remodelled/value-added by the team of scientists exclusively deputed for the purpose, added Dr Hirani.