TAFE announces free tractor rental scheme for small and marginal farmers of Tamil Nadu

TAFE (Tractors and Farm Equipment Confined) on Saturday announced a no cost tractor rental plan to help small farmers of Tamil Nadu for the duration of this critical cropping period amid the second wave of Covid in the nation.

In a push release, the Amalgamations Team enterprise stated, the no cost tractor rental plan is in addition to its previously contribution of oxygen concentrators, procurement of oxygen cylinders and help to the planned mass immunisation software. The complete outlay in the direction of all of TAFE’s contributions to COVID aid is Rs.15 crore.

“With the encouragement and help of the Tamil Nadu Governing administration, TAFE is joyful to offer you no cost-of-charge rental expert services to the small and marginal farmers of Tamil Nadu. TAFE will offer you its Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors along with farm implements to help the small and marginal farmers via this critical time and important cropping period,” Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman and Running Director, TAFE was quoted in the statement.

The no cost tractor rental plan would address somewhere around one,twenty,000 acres and will gain close to 50,000 farmers. It will be accessible from May well 2021 via July 2021 throughout Tamil Nadu. TAFE will offer you its sixteen,500 Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors and 26,800 implements on a “free-of-cost” rental basis to small farmers owning two acres or less.

Farmers can hire or employ the service of tractors or farm implements working with 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 implemented with the help of the Agriculture Section of Tamil Nadu and their district officials, the enterprise additional.