Fuel control across a 300-machine farm fleet
How BEK CLUSTER, one of Uzbekistan's largest agricultural producers, measured real consumption on its tractors and harvesters — and cut fuel costs by 30%.
One of Uzbekistan’s largest farm producers
BEK CLUSTER is an Uzbek-British joint venture and one of the largest agricultural producers in Uzbekistan. It grows grain and cotton and runs the country’s largest hydroponic greenhouse complex.
- 5,000 employees
- 35,000 hectares of arable land
- 300+ units of machinery
140,000–200,000 litres a day, accounted by quota
The fleet includes 120 New Holland tractors, 36 TTZ cotton tractors, 21 Kirovets tractors and 46 Case cotton harvesters. Each machine works 20–30 ha a day at a quota of 28–32 L/ha — so 140,000–200,000 litres of diesel were written off daily, about $75,000–110,000 at $0.55 per litre.
The company needed to:
- see where each machine works, how much area it covers and how it gets there;
- measure real hourly and daily consumption — quota accounting distorted the economics, and management suspected fuel drains;
- track engine hours by mode (idle, optimal, overload) to cut non-optimal running and service engines by actual hours.
A differential flow meter on every machine
All 300 machines received a DFM D differential fuel flow meter with CAN interface and a GPS tracker. The meter measures the supply and return lines and calculates the difference — no changes to the engine’s fuel system.
It keeps counters for total fuel and engine hours by mode. The body, fuel connections and cable connector are sealed against interference, and a built-in battery keeps counting when external power is off; the data is sent once power returns. Trackers pass everything to a field-monitoring service for agriculture.
Route, worked area and harvested weight are visible online for every machine. Fuel accounting is now based on measured consumption: consumption rates were optimised, fuel theft stopped and fuel costs fell by 30%. Maintenance follows actual engine hours, extending engine life.
Task → Solution → Result
Quota-based fuel on 300 machines
Up to 200,000 L of diesel written off per day by quota, with suspected drains and no per-machine data.
DFM D flow meters + GPS
Sealed differential flow meters with CAN interface and trackers on every tractor and harvester.
−30% fuel costs
Theft stopped, consumption rates optimised, servicing by real engine hours — and drivers’ productivity up 15%.
DFM D fuel flow meters provide accurate and complete information on fuel consumption and running time of machinery. Occasions of fuel theft have completely stopped. We also were delightfully surprised to get an unexpected additional effect. Tractor drivers have stopped selling stolen fuel and, to maintain their income level, have started to work better – so, their labor productivity has increased by 15%.
Oybek Satibaldiev · Founder, BEK CLUSTER
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