Agricultural mechanics: where is Vietnam?

According to information from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, for movers and tractors, up to now, the domestic mechanical industry has produced diesel engines with a capacity of up to 30 horsepower, accounting for over 30% of the market. domestic part. For combine harvesters, domestic machinery has a 15% market share. There are 15 enterprises, but only 3 enterprises including Tu Sang 2 in Tien Giang; Phan Tan in Dong Thap, An Giang Mechanical has a capacity to meet about 1,000 units / year. Truong Hai Auto Joint Stock Company (THACO) enters into a joint venture with South Korea to assemble agricultural machinery and equipment.
Mr. Phan Tan Bua, Director of Phan Tan Agricultural Mechanical Co., Ltd, said that Vietnam's agricultural machinery manufacturing industry was too outdated and was about to come to a dead end compared to the development speed of other countries in the country. area. Thanks to the State's policies, mechanization is increasing at each stage. However, at present most of the machinery used for mechanization are imported. Domestic manufactured agricultural machines are increasingly absent in the market and gradually lose their position.
The main reason for this situation is that Vietnam has not developed a number of key industries in mechanical engineering in general and agricultural mechanics in particular, leading to a lack of orientation and lack of concentration in industry development. . Investment resources for mechanics and metallurgy are low compared to other economic and industrial sectors, and most of obsolete machines and equipment have to be imported from outside asynchronously and lack of raw materials. This makes domestic enterprises have to be constantly in passive production, low productivity, quality, and products generally do not meet the increasing requirements of the market.
Mr. Phan Tan Bra points out that a complete product will include many components. The company cannot produce all itself because of its spread and huge investment costs. The highly demanding details in terms of structure, raw materials, are entirely dependent on Chinese goods, unstable. Therefore, when domestic agricultural machine production is not durable, unstable, it will affect the reputation of domestic production machines. If imported from Japan or Korea, very high prices increase prices, products made are not competitive in price.
“Another root cause is the particular feature of the agricultural machine industry is the large investment capital, while the low profit is facing fierce competition from many imported machines such as Japan, Korea, China ... so few people will invest, ”Mr. Brau added.
Mr. Nguyen Chi Sang, Vice Chairman of Vietnam Association of Mechanical Enterprises, said that the market capacity of each type of product in the mechanical engineering industry is still small, which does not ensure the economy in production investment, for example. such as manufacturing, assembling cars or agricultural machinery, tractors.
Investment capital for mechanical projects is very large. Vietnamese businesses often do not have the capacity to invest, while the support resources of the State are very limited; Along with that, the supporting industry industry has not met the requirements of supplying raw materials, components and spare parts for manufacturers of finished products. The basic mechanical engineering sub-sectors such as embryo creation, pressure machining, precision machining, heat treatment, surface treatment and mold production ... are very underdeveloped. 
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According to forecasts of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the demand for tractors and agricultural machines will increase from now to 2025. Specifically, the rice transplanting machine will increase rapidly on average from 500 to 1,000 units / year ( transplanter type 6-8 rows) in synchronization with tray plating technology; Combined rice harvesting machine (with a working width of 1.8-2m) increases from 2,000 to 3,000 pieces / year, mainly concentrated in the Mekong River Delta, Red River Delta, Central Coast and other provinces concentrated rice production. 
Machines for harvesting sugarcane, coffee, corn, beans and peanuts have an increase of 3-5 times in demand. Machines and equipment for waste treatment in livestock are growing rapidly.
Mr. Nguyen The Ha, Director of the Bui Van Ngo Institute of Technology said that the Mekong Delta region needs tens of thousands of equipment for agricultural mechanization, thousands of production lines, processing agricultural products and goods. chemistry. This is a large market with an estimated value of billions of dollars that the mechanical engineering industry of Ho Chi Minh City has. Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta need to develop.
According to Mr. Phan Tan Bua, Director of Phan Tan Agricultural Mechanical One Member Company Limited, in order to revive the mechanical engineering industry for agriculture, businesses are in need of support from the State, related ministries and branches. In the immediate future, it is necessary to focus on promoting the capital and human resources for small-capacity development small manufacturers, because it is these small manufacturers who fully understand all the difficulties and obstacles that the mechanical industry has. Manufacturing machines are encountered.