The Middle has launched nationwide take a look at Normal for electrical agricultural tractors for the primary time developed by the Bureau of Indian Requirements. It will guarantee the protection, reliability, and efficiency of electrical agricultural tractors by uniform and standardized testing protocols.
Union Minister for Client Affairs, Meals & Public Distribution,Pralhad Joshi, launched IS 19262: 2025 ‘Electrical Agricultural Tractors — Check Code’ which is voluntary for now.
“The implementation of IS 19262: 2025 by licensed testing institutes would facilitate wider adoption of electrical agricultural tractors within the nation, promote innovation in clear agricultural applied sciences, and contribute to lowered emissions and sustainable agricultural mechanisation,” the Client Affairs Ministry mentioned in an announcement.
It establishes a typical understanding amongst all stakeholders with respect to uniform terminology, basic tips, and checks to be carried out on electrical agricultural tractors on varied parameters.
Electrical agricultural tractors symbolize an rising section in India’s farm mechanization ecosystem.These tractors supply a sustainable different to conventional diesel-powered tractors, with advantages together with lowered emissions, decrease working prices, and improved operational efficiency.
Electrical tractor assist cut back air air pollution and the carbon footprint of agricultural operations and supply a more healthy working setting for farmers with considerably decrease noise and no publicity to exhaust fumes.
“Because the adoption of electrical agricultural tractors grows within the nation, the absence of devoted and harmonized testing procedures posed challenges in assessing their efficiency, security, and reliability in a constant method,”it famous
BIS developed as a precedence in response to this requirement and the request of the Mechanization & Know-how Division, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare collaborating with key stakeholders, together with electrical tractor producers, testing and certification businesses, analysis and tutorial establishments, and technical consultants.
Representatives from Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering,Central Farm Equipment Coaching and Testing Institute, Budni, Tractor and Mechanization Affiliation, Automotive Analysis Affiliation of India, All India Farmers Alliance, contributed considerably throughout the usual growth course of
“The notification of this commonplace, which is voluntary, marks an essential step in direction of strengthening India’s standardization framework for rising applied sciences within the agriculture sector, whereas aligning home practices with evolving worldwide developments in electrical mobility and farm mechanisation,” the assertion added.
In the meantime, the Ministry additionally introduced that
Nationwide Check Home (NTH), has entered right into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Defence Supplies and Shops Analysis & Growth Institution (DMSRDE), a laboratory of the Defence Analysis & Growth Organisation (DRDO).
The MoU goals to facilitate collaborative analysis and testing actions, sharing of laboratory and instrumentation services, trade of scientific and technical experience amongst others.
Revealed on December 28, 2025
