India’s Mumbai headquartered Mahindra & Mahindra announced plans to set-up a Mahindra Ag Tech Center at Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center. This research facility will focus on creating technology products for the North American agriculture market, and will complement the work being done in product development centers at Mahindra Research Valley in India, Japan and Finland to create product solutions for farmers globally.
Additionally, this collaboration will focus on technology projects to develop new generation farm equipment and work on the latest in technology that envisions grape-picking robots, and tractors that communicate with GPS systems and repair shops.
“This is a longstanding courtship between one of the great emerging companies of the 21st century and an American land-grant university of global reach and distinction has culminated in an enterprise that brings together research, practical application, and commercialization,” said Guru Ghosh, vice president, Virginia Tech Outreach and International Affairs. “Once the facility is fully established at Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, Mahindra Group will be Virginia Tech’s largest internationally headquartered tenant.” Mahindra & Mahindra is the largest maker of small tractors in the world and has a significant market present in the southern United States.
