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283000 Manufacture of agricultural and forestry machinery


This type includes:

  • manufacture of tractors used in agriculture and forestry
  • manufacture of walking (pedestrian-controlled) tractors
  • manufacture of mowers, including lawnmowers
  • manufacture of agricultural self-loading or self-unloading trailers or semi-trailers
  • manufacture of agricultural machinery for soil preparation, planting or fertilising:
  • ploughs, manure spreaders, seeders, harrows, etc.
  • manufacture of harvesting or threshing machinery:
  • harvesters, threshers, sorters, etc.
  • manufacture of milking machines
  • manufacture of spraying machinery for agricultural use
  • manufacture of diverse agricultural machinery:
  • poultry-keeping machinery, bee-keeping machinery, equipment for preparing fodder, etc.
  • machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit, etc.

This type excludes:

  • manufacture of non-power-driven agricultural hand tools (see 257300)
  • manufacture of conveyors for farm use (see 282200)
  • manufacture of power-driven hand tools (see 282400)
  • manufacture of cream separators (see 289300)
  • manufacture of machinery to clean, sort or grade seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables (see 289300)
  • manufacture of road tractors for semi-trailers (see 291000)
  • manufacture of road trailers or semi-trailers (see 292000)