Interview to Ignacio Ruiz, general secretary of Ansemat
David Pozo
14/04/2014The sector has worked beside the Ministry of Agriculture so that the Plan PIMA Tierra arrived to good port. From Interempresas have wanted to know of the hand of the general secretary of
Which quantity of marks, dealers and models of tractors have adhered to the Plan PIMA Tierra?
The practical majority of marks represented by Ansemat, that cover 99% of the market, already have sent the information and of her gives off that they have aimed to the Plan PIMA Tierra some 500 dealers. This step is fundamental so that once opened the term of adhesion was easier the identification of the points of sale by part of the Ministry. Regarding the relation of models, although it exists a list with more than 1.400 references that fulfil with the conditions of the Plan, the number reduces to the half, some 700, if we encircle us to real models and of commercial references.
That a part of the quantity was conditioned to the energetic efficiency of the tractor has caused some unrest between the manufacturers. All the marks have showed his support and have adhered finally to the Plan?
All the marks have adhered to the Plan, but, as we have communicated officially, did not agree with to go back to apply the criterion of energetic efficiency to be able to receive to the subvention. This complaint have transmitted it always, since they began to appear the plans Renove, because it treats of a very difficult criterion to calculate and based in some essays of the OCDE with which do not explain a good number of models that only sell in the EU.
This criterion would like me that it remained clear. The OCDE has two groups of work that realizar two types of essays, one that works with the characteristics of the tractor and another with the structures of protection anti-dump. Whereas the results of this last are taken into account by all the manufacturers, since they are vinculantes for the homologation in the EU, does not occur the same with the essays of characteristics that have his own homologation in Europe, and that instead yes that they are very recurrent in markets like the American or the Chinese, that do not have own homologation. All this causes that those models that the marks commercialise so much was as inside the EU fulfil with this essay, but that the rest of models that the marks commercialise exclusively in the EU can be that they do not fulfil it. From here the complaint by part of the manufacturers, and the reason whereby have wanted to explain to the agriculturalist that is possible that go to ask a help and the model that wish was not classified in the lists of the Ministry for the Plan PIMA.
The Ministry always has worked with Ansemat of the hand. From the association had liked them do the things of another way?
Obviously in the publication of any plan of subventions, the form of his divulging results essential, precisely not to enter perturbations in the market. Since it begins to announce, with the first rumours, the market is used to to go out of the normal tendency. Our worry was that the divulging did not do neither in the time neither with the clarity that a plan of this type requires. And sure enough these steps have not followed properly, since the Plan announced in FIMA, did not approve until principles of March, around the middle of April still had not opened the term of adhesion for the dealers, and the agriculturalists can not attend to request the helps until May.
On the other hand, also is truth that the reality can break these diagrams, and like this has been. When all thought that the market went to stop, has been the other way around. We are gratamente surprised that the agriculturalists, knowing that will have these available helps in May, have launched to buy equally the tractors.
Sure enough, the data advanced of tractors inscribed in this first quarter invite to the hope. The forecasts of face to the next three months by part of the marks also are good?
The feelings and the data that handle are good. In fact, when we begin to analyse for the first time the data of March, the people surprised of the long list of backorders. it is selling Absolutely everything. The forecast that has , therefore, is that the tendency follow the same of positive, perhaps no with growths of 50% as in March, but yes with significant increases.
Although now there will be changes at the head of the ministry, expects by part of Ansemat that the Plan PIMA Tierra have a second or even a third part during this 2014?
What said us is that in function of the success that had the Plan, that of course goes to be enormous, would evaluate , depending of the available budget in the Ministry, do a second or a third enlargement. We do not know which goes to be now the situation, but by the references that have what there is by sure is the Plan that have between hands and do not stir other hypotheses, especially if we take into account that this first Plan PIMA already has meant a big effort by part of the Ministry. Any step that give to a second game, will be of course more than welcome.
The rest of manufacturers of agricultural machinery also have requested through Ansemat a plan like the PIMA for tractors?
The extend the plans of help of renewal of tractors to the rest of machinery has been always a proposal that have received by part of the manufacturers and that we have moved to the Ministry. The problem is in that if we consider that the tractor is the basic team of work, any subvention that apply him converts also in a help to the rest of equipment of work. But sure enough they exist some type of machines, that perhaps right now no, but that in a future can need a direct help for the renewal, as they can be, for example, the equipment for the application of phytosanitary ware in the moment that set up the compulsory inspections of the equipment into use and these have to be substituted by new equipment.
To finals of March celebrated a year more the General Assembly of Ansemat. Can say that the sector follows more joined that never?
Categorically yes. It shows it the fact that in the last years has seen a greater participation of the companies, coming to the meetings, giving his opinion, identifying problems, sharing them with the rest of the companies, etc. This idea to share, to help ones to others, has done that in the last years, in spite of the crisis, there has been a greater number of companies that have associated , with a record in the last year, in which they have joined ten new companies more.
Besides, are many the challenges that have by in front and in which we are working, between them the new European homologation of machines towed and trailers, that will go in in force in 2016, and in which we carry working from does a pair of years in the texts beside the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture. Like association are forced to inform to all the manufacturers, already are associated or no, because we want that the new rule do not mean a massive entrance of machines of the EU that it can engage the future of some national manufacturers that have a product of quality. It is necessary that these companies have the information and a point of support to know that that comes them on.
