Tuesday 23 December 2014

Subsidy for farmers to buy farm implements

The government has allocated Rs. 34.04 lakh as subsidy to be extended to farmers to buy farm equipments in Kanyakumari district, according to a release from Collector Sajjansingh R. Chavan. The subsidy was released under the National Agriculture Development Programme for 2014-15. Of this, Rs. 5 lakh will be extended to Adi Dravidars and Rs. 29.04 lakh will be allocated to others. The scheme will be implemented through the Agriculture Engineering wing of Agriculture Department. A total of 50 per cent of the equipment cost will be given as subsidy for Adi Dravidars and others will get 40 per cent subsidy. Interested farmers are asked to approach the Assistant Executive Engineer (Agriculture Engineering), 833 Industrial Estate, Konam, Nagercoil or the Assistant Executive Engineer (Agriculture Engineering), 22/31A Mettukkadai, Pallivasal, Thuckalay, the release added.

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