Honda FJ500 (power weeder / mini tiller)
₹ 0.74 Lakh – ₹ 0.94 Lakh ex-showroom
Honda has sold power equipment in India since 1985 through its Greater Noida operation, and its farm machinery presence here is built on small petrol engines rather than tractors. Honda's reputation among Indian users rests on engines that start reliably after months in a shed, which is exactly what a seasonal machine needs.
We list one product, the FJ500 power weeder. It is a 4 HP single-cylinder of 163 cc, a walk-behind single-axle machine, priced ₹74,000 to ₹94,000. This is the smallest powered tillage tool in our catalogue and it is honest about what it does. Four horsepower will work between vegetable rows, weed a nursery bed, till a kitchen plot or a polyhouse floor, and turn soil in a small terrace field in the hills where nothing else can get in.
What it will not do is prepare a field. It cannot puddle paddy, it cannot pull a plough and it has no PTO or linkage for implements. Farmers comparing it with a 13 or 15 HP diesel power tiller should understand these are different categories entirely: a VST Shakti 130 DI at 13 HP costs about twice as much and does field work the FJ500 was never designed for.
Petrol running cost is also higher per hour than diesel, which matters if you use it daily.
| Model | HP | Price | Aglist Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honda FJ500 (power weeder / mini tiller) | 4 | ₹ 0.74 Lakh – ₹ 0.94 Lakh | 3.4/10 |
Weeding and shallow tilling in vegetable rows, nursery beds, polyhouses, kitchen plots and small terraced fields. It is a 4 HP, 163 cc walk-behind machine, so it works where a tractor or even a power tiller cannot turn. It is not a field preparation machine and cannot pull a plough or a trailer.
They do different jobs. The FJ500 at ₹74,000 to ₹94,000 is a 4 HP weeder for garden-scale work. A 13 to 15 HP diesel power tiller like the VST Shakti 130 DI or Shrachi SF 15 DI costs ₹1.65 lakh upward and actually prepares fields, puddles paddy and pulls a small trailer.
We do not publish a fuel consumption figure we cannot verify. What we can say is that it is a 163 cc petrol engine, so hourly running cost will be higher than a diesel power tiller of similar working output, and consumption depends heavily on soil hardness and how deep you set the tines.