Experts point out that many newly registered second-hand tractors, which were bought from Latvia, do not meet emission requirements.
“New tractors, which do not meet those requirements, cannot be registered, whereas second-hand tractors, which are brought from other countries where they have been registered, are not subject to those conditions. Farm equipment traders and farmers bring many second-hand tractors from other countries. Some of those tractors are new, but they have already been registered in other countries,” Ramunė Visockytė, an official from the Agriculture Ministry, told the daily.
According to the data available to the ministry, 497 new MTZ tractors were registered in Lithuania in 2011, and another 335 new tractors of that make in 2012. In the first half of this year, 183 new MTZ tractors and 346 second-hand tractors of that make were registered in the country.
