Irrigation gear makes a splash as Chinese eye our farm equipment market

Andrew Marshall
Updated August 31 2017 - 11:57am, first published 11:00am
Zonghui Irrigation Equipment Company general manager, Yiguo Wang, with his interpreter at AgQuip, promoting centre pivot and lateral move irrigators built by the company in Dalian Province and Inner Mongolia and sold to farms in Canada, Saudi Arabia, South America and Australia.
Zonghui Irrigation Equipment Company general manager, Yiguo Wang, with his interpreter at AgQuip, promoting centre pivot and lateral move irrigators built by the company in Dalian Province and Inner Mongolia and sold to farms in Canada, Saudi Arabia, South America and Australia.

Chinese interest in Australian agriculture is proving to be far more than just buying our meat, grain, fibre and horticultural exports – China wants to help produce those exports.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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