About UsTractors and farm equipment limited (TAFE), is a unit company of the amalgamations group, one of India's largest light engineering groups with diverse interests in diesel engines , automobile components , tractors and related farm machinery, lubricants, panel instruments, hydraulic pumps, engineering tools , storage batteries, paints , engineering plastics , automobile franchises and printing apart from interests in agribusiness , book selling and publishing. The group's leadership technology, built on foreign know how has been nurtured through indigenous efforts. Tafe was established in 1961 in collaboration with massey ferguson, UK to manufacture and market a range of tractors and related farm equipment in india. One of the largest tractor manufactures of tractors in india, Tafe's vision is to be the first choice of customers in india and to also move towards a growing presence in the international markets. With a network of more than 500 dealers, branches, service outlets as well as its own sales offices and depots covering the entire width and breadth of india, Tafe is committed to providing complete farming solutions to its customers and empowering them to work towards increased farm productivity, prosperity and profits. Tafe has been a pioneer in the mechanization of the Indian farms. Beginning with the popularizing of tractors in agriculture in the early 60s, Tafe has many firsts to its credit. Tafe was the first company to market a total package of tractors and farm equipment to not only provide farm power but also interfaces to transform the farm power to increased farm productivity. Tafe was also the first to introduce the direct injection technology in india, thereby intiating considerable fuel saving and the resulting economies in tractor operations cost to its customers. Tafe was also the first Indian manufacturer to launch a 75 hp tractor to cater to the emerging needs of very large farms and agri-businesses. With three manufacturing locations at Chennai(sembiam), Madurai (kallidaipatti) and Bangalore(doddaballapur), tafe has a large manufacturing base. Its Madurai plant, the latest and possibly the largest such plant in the country is specially tailored to take on short run production batches to the exacting standards demanded by advanced countries. All its plants and sales offices are linked by vsat links providing fast and efficient communications and data linkage another first of its kind in India. |