Ecologically Oriented Agricultural Machinery Development

During the last few years, industry has come to face the demand of optimizing the ecological compatibility of its technical products. Especially the agricultural machinery branch is to develop ecologically compatible machines and facilities as these are used for work in ecologically sensitive areas. This paper will present the practical experiences of optimizing agricultural machines' ecological compatibility; it will also show a method designed for ecologically oriented agricultural machines' development in small and medium sized enterprises, based on these experiences.