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Aurangabad, Jan 16 (PTI) A man in Maharashtra"s Beed district has become a good example of the ingenuity that is powering start-ups in the country by building an 18 horsepower tractor to tide over the need for a pair of bullocks to help with farming.
Speaking to PTI on National Start-up Day, Namdev Anerav (36) of Pimpalner, some 160 kilometres from here, said the idea of a tractor with a width of just 1.5 feet and length of 5 feet came to him in 2008 after the need for a pair of bullocks was stalling farming on his ancestral plot.
"Big tractors cannot perform optimally on small plots.
To overcome this limitation, I created this small tractor, which runs on petrol and diesel.
After a long process of trial and error, I used my welding skills to build the first prototype in 2011-12.
The final product can plough, remove grass, break clods of soil," he said.