John Deere India Private Limited, a subsidiary of Deere & Company, USA, has launched the first-of-its-kind Sugarcane Harvester CH 330 specifically designed to excel in the Indian farming conditions at the EIMA Agrimach 2013, New Delhi. The product was unveiled by Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing, Tariq Anwar, who handed over the keys to the customers from Maharashtra.

Satish Nadiger, Managing Director of John Deere India, said, “Deere’s success around the world has been earned because of our focus on the customer and on meeting the needs of many different markets. In India, this has been our strategy and we shall continue to invest and bring products and programmes that help farmers move from subsistence levels to become business entrepreneurs.” He added “Our recent investments include a harvester factory in Sirhind in Punjab and our newest tractor factory at Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, that we inaugurated on the 22nd October 2013”.

“John Deere began designing the CH330 Sugar Cane Harvester, as a result of customer needs and their expectation for harvesting solutions”, said Jeffery Freyou, Global Product Marketing Manager. “The need was very clear in terms of capability to harvest heavy crops, maneuverability in smaller plots, cleaner cane, and enhanced performance. We listened and responded with a harvesting solution that meets these requests while providing state of the art efficiency, the best cost per ton, less than three years to payback, and John Deere Quality”, he added.