KYIV. Aug 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Ukrainian associations of automobile (Ukrautoprom) and agricultural machinery building (Ukragromash), jointly with the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, are combing their efforts to revive the industry on the basis of cooperation between research institutions and producing enterprises, promoting the technical level and competitiveness of agricultural and wheel transport equipment.
Ukrautoprom President Mykhailo Reznik said at a press conference that a coordination center for the innovative development of domestic agricultural and motor engineering was created for this purpose.
“The idea is to unite efforts with agricultural machinery producers having similar problems. For instance, today 80% of both car market and agro machinery market is occupied with imported vehicles, while we are losing competitiveness. The highest agricultural import of agro machinery is from China,” he said.
According to him, industrial cooperation is planned within the framework discussed at Zaporizhia Automobile Plant (ZAZ) and PJSC Chervona Zirka.
“Chervona Zirka has a new foundry line, and we have direct links with China, for example,” Reznik said.
He noted that there are also grounds for such cooperation because of the fact that up to 90% of components in the automotive and agricultural machinery sectors are virtually identical.
