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Punjab govt offers subsidy on farm equipments, setting up custom hiring centres
The Punjab government will provide subsidy to the farmers of the state to purchase various agricultural machinery and set up custom hiring centres.
The Punjab government will provide subsidy to the farmers of the state to purchase various agricultural machinery and set up custom hiring centres.
Giving this information, agriculture and farmers welfare minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Sunday said that the farmers of the state can avail the subsidy by applying online on the department’s website agrimachinerypb.com by February 29 for availing the subsidy individually and to set up custom hiring centres.
The minister said that this step has been taken to promote agricultural machinery in the state under the Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM) scheme, adding that under this scheme, farmers can avail subsidy on machines individually and through custom hiring centres, panchayats, cooperatives, rural entrepreneurs, farmer producer organizations (FPOs), registered farmer groups etc.
Dhaliwal said that for individual farmers, Laser Land Leveler, Potato Planter (Automatic), Potato Planter (Semi Automatic), Air Assisted Sprayer, Pneumatic Planter, Power Weeder (Engine/PTO Operated), Tractor Operated Fertilizer Broadcaster, Paddy Transplanter (Self Propelled) Ride on and Walk Behind), Raised Bed Planter, SubSoiler, Single Row Forage Harvester, Potato Digger, DSR Drill, Tractor Operated Sprayer (Boom Sprayer), Power Harrow, Tractor Operated Plate Planter with Pre Emergence Herbicide Strip Applicator (Lucky Seed Drill) etc., subsidy can be availed.
Dhaliwal said that different categories of Custom Hiring Centers falling in the cost brackets of ₹10 lakhs, ₹25 lakhs, ₹40 lakhs and ₹60 lakhs would be able to get subsidy for the purchase of machines.He said that the subsidy rates for general category are 40%, 50% for specialty components, and 40% for custom hiring centers.
Dhaliwal invited the state’s farmers and various groups associated with farmers to take advantage of subsidies on the purchase of machines and adopt mechanization in agriculture, saying that by adopting mechanization, farmers can increase their income. He said that farmers can also meet their District Chief Agriculture Officer for more information.
