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

TAFE (Tractors and Farm Equipment Constrained) on Saturday introduced a totally free tractor rental plan to aid small farmers of Tamil Nadu during this essential cropping year amid the 2nd wave of Covid in the region.

In a push launch, the Amalgamations Group enterprise explained, the totally free tractor rental plan is in addition to its previously contribution of oxygen concentrators, procurement of oxygen cylinders and aid to the planned mass immunisation method. The total outlay in direction of all of TAFE’s contributions to COVID aid is Rs.fifteen crore.

“With the encouragement and aid of the Tamil Nadu Authorities, TAFE is delighted to present totally free-of-price tag rental services to the small and marginal farmers of Tamil Nadu. TAFE will present its Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors together with farm implements to aid the small and marginal farmers by way of this essential time and critical cropping year,” Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman and Managing Director, TAFE was quoted in the assertion.

The totally free tractor rental plan would go over around one,twenty,000 acres and will advantage close to fifty,000 farmers. It will be accessible from Could 2021 by way of July 2021 across Tamil Nadu. TAFE will present its sixteen,five hundred Massey Ferguson and Eicher tractors and 26,800 implements on a “free-of-cost” rental foundation to small farmers owning two acres or much less.

Farmers can rent or hire tractors or farm implements applying TAFE’s digital platform on the TN Govt’s Uzhavan application or the toll-totally free helpline 1800-4200-a hundred. The plan will be applied with the aid of the Agriculture Office of Tamil Nadu and their district officers, the enterprise included.