TAFE (Tractors and Farm Products Minimal) on Saturday introduced a free tractor rental scheme to guidance small farmers of Tamil Nadu all through this important cropping season amid the next wave of Covid in the nation.
In a press release, the Amalgamations Team corporation said, the free tractor rental scheme is in addition to its before contribution of oxygen concentrators, procurement of oxygen cylinders and guidance to the planned mass immunisation method. The whole outlay in direction of all of TAFE’s contributions to COVID reduction is Rs.fifteen crore.
“With the encouragement and guidance of the Tamil Nadu Governing administration, TAFE is pleased to provide free-of-charge rental solutions to the small and marginal farmers of Tamil Nadu. TAFE will provide its Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors along with farm implements to guidance the small and marginal farmers by means of this important time and essential cropping season,” Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman and Controlling Director, TAFE was quoted in the statement.
The free tractor rental scheme would protect approximately one,twenty,000 acres and will advantage about fifty,000 farmers. It will be out there from Could 2021 by means of July 2021 throughout Tamil Nadu. TAFE will provide its sixteen,500 Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors and 26,800 implements on a “free-of-cost” rental basis to small farmers possessing 2 acres or fewer.
Farmers can lease or seek the services of tractors or farm implements applying TAFE’s electronic platform on the TN Govt’s Uzhavan app or the toll-free helpline 1800-4200-100. The scheme will be carried out with the guidance of the Agriculture Section of Tamil Nadu and their district officials, the corporation added.
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