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Coronavirus: TAFE offers 3,000 tractors for rent-free use by UP farmers

Tractor major to provide tractor, farm implements for rabi season

M&M, TAFE look to rev up the tractor market
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Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
Amid the coronavirus lockdown, tractor major Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE) will provide its tractors and farm implements for free use by the Uttar Pradesh farmers during the coming April-June rabi harvest and post-harvest season.

TAFE, the world’s third largest tractor maker, has offered to deploy 3,000 tractors and 12,400 farm implements at the disposal of the beneficiary small and marginal farmers identified by the state government.

TAFE CEO Sandeep Sinha has already written a letter to the Yogi Adityanath government offering the rental free use of its tractors and implements under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

“Needless to

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