JAIPUR: Considering the difficult Covid situation, the state agriculture department under the free rental scheme is providing agriculture equipment such as tractors and sowing machines to farmers with small land holdings during the upcoming kharif season.
Agriculture commissioner Dr Om Prakash said the scheme would be available to small and marginal farmers with land holdings of up to 2.5 acres from June 1 to July 31 (60 days).
Under the scheme, agriculture equipment sucha s plough, rotavator, cultivator, seed-cum-fertilizer drill machine will be made available to farmers.
However, one farmer can place one order.
“Since most of the small and marginal farmers do manual jobs and cannot afford tractors and other agriculture implements, it was decided to provide them with these services so that they could complete the harvesting season with minimum labour,” said an official associated with the scheme.
The scheme is being implemented in cooperation with J Farm Services.
They will make available 41,800 tractors and more than 1,16,700 agriculture implements on demand of farmers all over the state.
The company will pay rentals to tractor owners and owners of other agriculture implements on completion of the task.
Tractor owners have to upload a ‘happy code’ from the telephone number of the farmer with the pics of the field before and after the task to get the rental for the work done.
Commissioner said the farmers could book services https:// jfarmservices.com or on toll free number 1800 4200 100 to get the service.
The state agriculture department had last year during the kharif harvesting season provided free harvesting service to 27,379 farmers.