The year 2011 is it shaping up as the recovery for the sector of tractors and trailers

The global crisis of 2008 affected almost all productive sectors of European society, and clear, to affect the field, this focused heavily on the acquisition of heavy machinery such as tractors and trailers. This crisis, according to data compiled by the National Association of agricultural machinery, forestry and green spaces (Ansemat) was extended until the last quarter of the year 2010, when it began its slow recovery. Finally, and in so far this year, the figures for buying and selling of these agricultural equipment have achieved stability.

So far, a reversal of trend, for the first time in more than 24 months, has been shown watching only in Spain they have registered a 43.9% over tractors, 45.4% of harvesting machinery as well as a take-off of a 21% more in terms of the number of teams dragged or suspended for treatments. Also, labour of soil have traced a 17.6% and the input of fertilizers and water rise 16.6 per cent, according to data from the official register of agricultural machinery (Rome).

These data are considered to be very positive and contrast strongly with the totals of market of the year 2010, under the effects of the financial crisis that was left note with much rigor in the markets of greater added value as the tractorsboth in investment and in units sold, being a year marked by the maintenance and care of existing teams.

For its part, Europe also experienced in 2010 a year of ill-fated in this sense, although as in Spain expected a 2011 much recovery. The Pan-European institution CEMA conducted a barometer for measuring the sector throughout year 2010 among 19 countries on the continent and felt a sharp fall from 9.4 per cent in Europe, based on the fall of their main market (France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and Spain).

145.223 Units in these 19 countries, led by the 31.312 who bought France, were released in the year 2010 28.587 who acquired Germany, the 23.324 that became the Italians and the 14.486 obtained the British. Spain stands for below, with a few 10.554 tractors acquired, representing 7.2% of the environment studied in the sample.

However, this year has started on the right foot, prefiguring the recovery of the market, at least throughout the first half. Growth dragged and/or suspended machinery (which need a tractor), can be added to the data mentioned above, which has risen, only in Spain, a 6.1% reaching 12,600 units sold, a higher percentage than the estimates made, in part due to the decrees of characterization and registration of agricultural machinery of compulsory execution. The national subsector of the trailers also has grown during these first four months of the year, with a 2.6% increase, the decline of registered units, which helps to see that farmers begin to prefer investing in larger teams and higher level of technological and productive applicationto support a more professional, sustainable, economic and profitable agriculture as well.