TAFE (Tractors and Farm Equipment Restricted) on Saturday announced a cost-free tractor rental scheme to support modest farmers of Tamil Nadu throughout this vital cropping period amid the next wave of Covid in the region.
In a press launch, the Amalgamations Group firm claimed, the cost-free tractor rental scheme is in addition to its before contribution of oxygen concentrators, procurement of oxygen cylinders and support to the prepared mass immunisation software. The overall outlay towards all of TAFE’s contributions to COVID relief is Rs.15 crore.
“With the encouragement and support of the Tamil Nadu Govt, TAFE is delighted to provide cost-free-of-cost rental expert services to the modest and marginal farmers of Tamil Nadu. TAFE will provide its Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors together with farm implements to support the modest and marginal farmers through this vital time and vital cropping period,” Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman and Handling Director, TAFE was quoted in the statement.
The cost-free tractor rental scheme would include somewhere around one,twenty,000 acres and will gain all-around fifty,000 farmers. It will be offered from Might 2021 through July 2021 across Tamil Nadu. TAFE will provide its 16,five hundred Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors and 26,800 implements on a “free-of-cost” rental basis to modest farmers proudly owning 2 acres or fewer.
Farmers can rent or use tractors or farm implements making use of TAFE’s electronic platform on the TN Govt’s Uzhavan application or the toll-cost-free helpline 1800-4200-100. The scheme will be carried out with the support of the Agriculture Division of Tamil Nadu and their district officials, the firm additional.
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