zaid_rasheed
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looking for mini sugarcane harvester
Guys
I have seen all the postings in relevant sugar cane harvesters in this forum,and wish to guide all in right directions,as I saw few said they will import Chinese products and supply you.
As far the sugarcane harvesters are concerned,we need to look various parameters like,harvest per hour,ground depth approach,Harvesting losses per hectare,fuel efficiency in terms of cane harvested,Fire breaks etc.There are various reputed makers like CLARK,ZF,Toft etc are in the field.Please note that CLARK,and Toft them-self has beautiful Research centres,and invested much on this technology.Even after this efforts,I have seen personally the efficiency of clark harvesters is less( Less than 40 tons per hour) and are fire prone.I have used this harvesters,in 8000 hectares cane field and lost two harvesters,out of the five deployed to fire in harvesting.They have positives as well negatives.I also used the so called chinese,products( which I don't wanted to name it),in low range sectors failed miserably within first one month.Then we also need to compare the operating cost,where in the CLASS harvestors is marginal,and Chinese high.If any body needs the data ,I am ready to give them personally.
Sethu P Kumar