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

Tractors & Farm Tools Ltd (TAFE) has mentioned that its cost-free tractor rental plan, less than its common JFarm Services platform, has helped countless numbers of little and marginal farmers in Tamil Nadu to proceed with their agricultural functions in an uninterrupted fashion irrespective of the influence of the 2nd wave of the Covid pandemic.

“Under the plan, far more than one,55,000 hrs of cost-free tractor and farm implement rental products and services were supplied, cultivating over one,03,000 acres, inside sixty times,” according to a assertion.

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Scheme coverage

TAFE supplied its 19,000 Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors and 33,five hundred implements on a “free-of-cost” rental basis to little farmers proudly owning two acres or significantly less. In opposition to the estimated coverage of fifty,000 farmers in Tamil Nadu, the plan protected 64,000 farmers.

“High-demand from customers implements like cultivator, disc plough, duck-foot cultivator and rotary tiller were greatly utilized by the farmers less than the plan,” it additional.

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“The TAFE JFarm Services cost-free tractor rental plan played a key function in helping little and marginal farmers proceed farming functions through the 2nd wave of the Covid outbreak. The Office of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare initiative to associate with TAFE helped in giving timely assist and benefited farmers. I am especially happy that the plan concentrated on needy farmers with land holding of significantly less than all-around one acre,” mentioned Tamil Nadu Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, M R K Panneerselvam.

Serving little farmers

This CSR initiative by TAFE aimed to rescue the farming neighborhood from the financial implications of Covid-19, and mitigate the influence of the pandemic threat on farming functions through the essential Rabi harvest and Kharif preparation period.

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“We have been presented an option to provide the little and marginal farmers at this essential juncture, and at the exact time, engage in a function in boosting the revenue of farmers through a direct gain process, which has been welcomed by both, the renter farmers and the little farmers,” mentioned Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman & Taking care of Director, TAFE.