Homologation, product registration, and statutory advisory across geographies.
Power tillers, power weeders, and power reapers are the workhorses of India's small-farm mechanization push — and almost none of them reach a dealer floor without an FMTTI test report. This guide covers which test code applies to which machine, what FMTTI actually checks, and where OEMs lose the most calendar time.
Most TEV studies fail not because the project is weak but because the report does not answer the three questions the bank's risk committee will actually ask. This piece is a practical guide from the bank-facing side of the table.
ARAI, ICAT, and FMTII are the three central testing agencies that stand between a tractor or farm machine and an Indian registration plate. Picking the wrong one — or the right one at the wrong stage — can add six to nine months to a launch. This guide breaks down scope, sequencing, and cost.
The 2017 amendment removed bamboo on non-forest land from the legal definition of 'tree', ending the felling- and transit-permit burden that suppressed private cultivation for nearly a century. The unlock applies only to non-forest land — bamboo on notified forest land is still regulated, and state transit rules still vary.