Anastasia Proskuryakova, coordinator of sales Department official Manitou distributor of agricultural equipment LLC "Traktorotsentr":

Last year in SZFO noticeable growth was observed in the leasing market of agricultural machinery. The increase in demand associated with the development of domestic agrarian enterprises due to the ban on the importation into our country of products of sanctions. There are new and expanding existing farms, they receive additional financial resources for the formation and increase of the Park of special equipment due to government subsidies of agricultural machinery, in particular the state program 1432.

In 2017, our company through leasing programs have been implemented in nearly 90% of all transactions for the sale of agricultural machinery. This significantly increased the proportion of requests for leasing used vehicles. The most popular among the farmers of the North-Western region of Russia has traditionally been productive tractors with engine power of 200 HP, combine harvesters and forage trailers.

In the past year remained highly in demand imported agricultural machinery, often farmers prefer certain brands. For example, our customers have noted that choosing an agricultural telescopic loaders Manitou thanks to the good ratio of price and quality. In 2017 most popular in the line of this type of technology in SZFO kept the model MLT 735 with a lifting height of up to 7 m and weight of up to 3.5 T.