New Delhi, Dec. 28 -- The government has brought in new testing standards for electric farm tractors, aiming to create a uniform framework to assess their safety, reliability, and performance as these battery-powered machines slowly gain traction in India's agricultural sector, the ministry of consumer affairs said on Sunday.

"The new standard lays down structured and uniform testing procedures covering key performance parameters such as power take-off output, drawbar power, belt and pulley performance, vibration levels, specification verification and inspection of major components and assemblies," the ministry said in a statement.

While the standard draws technical inputs from the existing agricultural tractor test code and relevant au...