Zetor hoping to triple tractor production in five years

The Czech tractor maker Zetor is hoping to triple production in the next five years. The company is hiring 300 new employees after increasing production capacity at its Brno plant, and plans to roll out 15,000 tractors a year. The majority owner of Zetor, the Slovak group HTC, has daughter companies which sell its tractors in Poland, Ireland, Germany and other states. Ninety percent of its exports go to the EU.