TAFE’s free tractor rental scheme helps farmers continue their work

Tractors & Farm Equipment Ltd (TAFE) has said that its no cost tractor rental scheme, less than its popular JFarm Expert services platform, has served countless numbers of smaller and marginal farmers in Tamil Nadu to go on with their agricultural functions in an uninterrupted method irrespective of the effects of the next wave of the Covid pandemic.

“Under the scheme, extra than 1,55,000 hours of no cost tractor and farm implement rental services have been provided, cultivating in excess of 1,03,000 acres, within just 60 times,” in accordance to a assertion.

Plan coverage

TAFE provided its 19,000 Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors and 33,500 implements on a “free-of-cost” rental basis to smaller farmers proudly owning two acres or a lot less. Towards the believed coverage of fifty,000 farmers in Tamil Nadu, the scheme included 64,000 farmers.

“High-need implements like cultivator, disc plough, duck-foot cultivator and rotary tiller have been commonly utilized by the farmers less than the scheme,” it added.

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“The TAFE JFarm Expert services no cost tractor rental scheme performed a essential role in aiding smaller and marginal farmers go on farming functions all through the next wave of the Covid outbreak. The Division of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare initiative to partner with TAFE served in supplying timely assistance and benefited farmers. I am notably glad that the scheme centered on needy farmers with land keeping of a lot less than around 1 acre,” said Tamil Nadu Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, M R K Panneerselvam.

Serving smaller farmers

This CSR initiative by TAFE aimed to rescue the farming neighborhood from the economic implications of Covid-19, and mitigate the effects of the pandemic danger on farming functions all through the critical Rabi harvest and Kharif preparing year.

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“We have been offered an opportunity to provide the smaller and marginal farmers at this critical juncture, and at the same time, participate in a role in maximizing the earnings of farmers by means of a immediate benefit program, which has been welcomed by both of those, the renter farmers and the smaller farmers,” said Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman & Running Director, TAFE.