Basak Agricultural Tractors, Earth Moving and Agricultural Machinery AG or Başak Traktör is a Turkish

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manufacturer that is owned by the Sanko group. The company produce a variety of field and orchard tractors. Their current line-up of 2x4 and 4x4 models consists of close to 20 models, factory's production capacity being approximately 10,000 units per year.

History

The factory started as DA-TA (Demir Araba – Tahta Araba, i.e. ''Iron Vehicle – Wooden Vehicle'') in 1914 in

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, originally producing

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s, beehives and

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. The Turkish Agricultural Hardware Institution purchased the plant in 1944, renaming it Sakarya Alat-ı Ziraiye (SAZ) (i.e.

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Agricultural Equipments). The plant had its own thermoelectric plant, supplying electricity to the factory and Sakarya area. In 1962 the company started importing

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. Six years later, they had moved on from importing and aftersales to manufacturing them under a license achieving 65% domestic components rate in production. Later, in 1979, they started producing

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tractors under a similar agreement. The company was renamed Başak in 1996 and started making tractors under their own brand. Başak joined Sanko group in 2012.

References

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