Low farmer awareness keeps e-tractor sales muted despite state sops

Only 26 electric tractors have been sold in India so far this fiscal compared with half a million diesel units sold in the same period as lack of adequate charging infrastructure in rural areas is a key challenge.

- Manas Pimpalkhare & Vijay C. Roy

Electric tractor sales have remained negligible even in states such as Haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Telangana, which offer incentives like direct subsidies, road and registration tax waivers, and manufacturing benefits.

Haryana offers a ₹5 lakh subsidy on e-tractors in its 2022 EV policy, yet only one unit has been sold in FY26. In Maharashtra, where the prices of e-tractors and other integrated harvesting machines are cut by 10%, only 11 units have been sold in this fiscal.

No e-tractor has been sold this fiscal in Madhya Pradesh, where they are exempt from motor vehicle registration tax and registration fees. The same was the case in Punjab, which highlighted manufacturing sops in its EV policy.