at Sanaswadi, Pune, manufactures 5000 Series agricultural tractors. The Indian operations of Deere & Company include a technology center located at Magarpatta City Pune, John Deere Dewas (Indore MP) works, Jon Deere PDC Nagpur (MH) and John Deere Water Vadodara. The technology center provides services in the areas of Information technology, engineering, supply management, embedded systems and technical authoring for company's operations worldwide. John Deere Water, formed by the acquisitions of Plastro Irrigation Systems, T-Systems International, and Roberts Irrigation Products. Mahindra Gujarat Tractor Limited (MGTL) The company popularly known as Gujarat Tractors and its popular 60 hp model Hindustan 60 was established in 1959 as Tractors and Bulldozers Private Ltd and imported tractors. Manufacturing began in 1963, in collaboration Motokov-Praha (Zetor) of Czechoslovakia, and was known as Hindustan Tractors & Bulldozers Ltd. In 1967, it became Hindustan Tractors Ltd. The tractors were based on the Zetor tractor design and sold under the Hindustan brand. In 1978, the Gujarat, Indian government formed Gujarat Tractors from the ailing company. In 1999, Mahindra Tractors purchased 60% of the company, and in 2001, completed purchasing the rest of the company, renaming it Mahindra Gujarat Tractors Ltd thus becoming part of Mahindra Group. The company is engaged in manufacturing of tractors in a range of 30-60 hp which are marketed under Farmplus and Shaktimaan brand. Mahindra Gujarat Tractor Limited (MGTL) has its Head Office at Vadodara. MGTL is an ISO 9001:2008 and OHSAS18001:2007 certified company. The company has a very good marketing network across India having 13 area offices and around 225 dealers. Mahindra Tractors Mahindra Tractors is an international farm equipment manufacturer of Mahindra & Mahindra. In 2010, Mahindra became the largest selling tractor in the world. Mahindra's largest consumer base is in India, but with sales also focusing on China, North America and a growing base in Australia. The company is the largest manufacturer with about 25% of the market in India and has the capacity to build 150,000 tractors a year. In 1963, M&M formed a joint venture with International Harvester to manufacture tractors carrying the Mahindra nameplate for the Indian market. Mahindra purchased the rights from International Harvester to manufacture their British designed International B-275 model which was also sold in USA as McCormick International. Mahindra Tractors sold about 85,000 units annually making it one of the largest tractor producers in the world.[5] To expand into the growing tractor market in