TAFE announces free tractor rental scheme for small and marginal farmers of Tamil Nadu
TAFE (Tractors and Farm Tools Restricted) on Saturday introduced a no cost tractor rental plan to assist small farmers of Tamil Nadu during this important cropping season amid the next wave of Covid in the country.
In a press launch, the Amalgamations Team organization said, the no cost tractor rental plan is in addition to its before contribution of oxygen concentrators, procurement of oxygen cylinders and assist to the prepared mass immunisation plan. The complete outlay toward all of TAFE’s contributions to COVID relief is Rs.15 crore.
“With the encouragement and assist of the Tamil Nadu Govt, TAFE is satisfied to give no cost-of-charge rental services to the small and marginal farmers of Tamil Nadu. TAFE will give its Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors alongside with farm implements to assist the small and marginal farmers by way of this important time and crucial cropping season,” Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman and Handling Director, TAFE was quoted in the statement.
The no cost tractor rental plan would cover somewhere around one,twenty,000 acres and will gain all-around 50,000 farmers. It will be readily available from May 2021 by way of July 2021 across Tamil Nadu. TAFE will give its sixteen,500 Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors and 26,800 implements on a “free-of-cost” rental basis to small farmers proudly owning 2 acres or fewer.
Farmers can lease or hire tractors or farm implements employing TAFE’s electronic platform on the TN Govt’s Uzhavan app or the toll-no cost helpline 1800-4200-a hundred. The plan will be executed with the assist of the Agriculture Department of Tamil Nadu and their district officers, the organization included.