Press release
Agricultural Machinery: Cooperation between Italy and Indonesia growing
Up for presentation in Jakarta on the eve of INAGRITECH, Indonesia's Dedicated Event for
Agricultural Machinery and Equipment, is the EIMA International agricultural mechanization
exposition slated for November in Bologna in an even larger 2014 edition featuring a greater
exhibition area and bigger numbers of exhibitors and visitors. The EIMA review is coming along at
a time of considerable growth of Indonesian demand for agricultural machinery and equipment
against the backdrop of increasing economic cooperation with Italy in the specific sector of
agricultural mechanization.
The Indonesian agricultural mechanization market is expanding and Italy can become an efficient
partner for this Asian giant. According to data based on Trademap elaborated by the Italian Economic
Research Center, Nomisma, in recent years Indonesia has become one of the most dynamic markets for
tractors and other agricultural machinery and equipment. For machinery and equipment, Indonesia's
growth in imports took the country to fourth place in the world, following Australia, Brazil and South
Africa, to signal the strong drive for the acquisition of technologies from outside countries offering the
solutions required for local agriculture. Against this background, the Italian industry, one of the world's
largest producers of agricultural machinery, reported an 86% surge in exports of various types of
agricultural machinery and equipment to Indonesia from 2011 to 2012 to take more than 7% of this
market and estimates are that this growth continued by 5% in 2013. Further increases are expected not
only for various types of agricultural machinery but also for tractors which are now very limited.
Moreover, Indonesia displays an enormous potential with an economy expected to climb from 16 th place
in world standings to 7th by 2020 and with an extremely important role assigned to agriculture, a sector
with a workforce which accounts for some 40% of the population. As is known, the nation's forestry
reserves, which now cover 20% of the land area, are also very import and strongly exploited for the
production of raw materials and valuable timber but must be put to better and possibly greater use
through the introduction of more efficient and more widespread mechanization. In this connection, an
Italian-Indonesian project on agricultural mechanization and trade fair events was unwrapped this
morning in Jakarta on the eve of INAGRITECH, the Indonesian Agricultural Machinery and Equipment
Exhibition, during a press conference held by FederUnacoma, the Italian Federation of Agricultural
Machinery Manufacturers and the organizer of EIMA International, the great biennial agricultural
mechanization exposition heading into its 41st edition in Bologna 12 to 16 November. Covered at the
press conference, led by the FederUnacoma head of the national and international events office, Marco
Acerbi, were details on planning for the upcoming review with an enlarged exhibition area and the
arrival of greater numbers of exhibitors and visitors. Some 1,800 manufacturers coming from 40
countries around the world to participate will take over an exhibition area of 150,000 m² out of a total of
300,000 m² for the event expected to draw 200,000 visitors. Marco Acerbi said, “The success of EIMA
International is due to its professional status with fourteen specializations and four theme salons on
components, bioenergy, multifunctional agriculture and gardening and groundskeeping, and on its
international scope with more than 500 foreign industries taking part and 20% of the visitors arriving
from abroad, plus fifty official foreign delegations representing all the continents around the globe.”
Highly qualified Indonesian businesspeople will also be in attendance in larger numbers than the twenty
from the country who came for the 2012 edition thanks to the presence in Bologna of an official
Indonesian delegation and plans shaping up for technical and commercial cooperation involving
Indonesian and Italian agencies and ongoing analyses of the mechanization needs of the Asian giant.
Jakarta, 18 March, 2014
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