Tractor major TAFE to train women farmers
· To expand footprint of Lab-to-Land initiative
· Farmers’ Day in Karnataka draws huge response
BENGALURU, March 15, 2013:
Close on the heels of the success of its lab-to-land initiative to
train the farming community, India’s second largest tractor company TAFE
has decided to extend the programme to women peasants.
A pilot project to train women farmers in farm management – soil
conservation, pest management, yield improvement, tractor driving and
implement usage will soon be launched, TAFE said today at during a
Farmers’ Day event organized by the company at Doddaballapur, near
Bengaluru called ‘Raithara Dhinachanarane’, TAFE focused on
horticulture, the flavor of the region with a variety of fruits and
vegetables, and conducted sessions on best farm practices leveraging
technology and equipment.
Over 350 farmers, including women farmers, participated in the day-long programme.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr K Srinivasan, Senior Chief Agri-
Economist, TAFE said “Through this Farmer’s Day event, we encourage
farmers to accelerate the pace of horticultural development in
fulfilling the national task of achieving self reliance in fruit
production. Our mission is to lead farming communities at the local and
national levels towards sustainable, organic stewardship of land, food
and fiber while respecting nature, upholding social justice and
protecting natural resources.”
Farm scientists and experts from University of Agricultural
Sciences, Bengaluru, Indian Institute of Horticulture, Bengaluru and
TAFE, touched upon improving the output of fruits like mango, grapes,
sapota, banana, guava and papaya, and vegetables like cauliflower,
cabbage, brinjal and tomato.
Mr V Srinivasan, Associate Vice President, TAFE Doddaballapur
Plant, Mr S Ramakrishnan, CITO, TAFE, Dr K Srinivasan, Sr Chief Agri
Economist, TAFE, Dr N Nagaraja, Director of Extension, UAS, Bangalore,
Dr R Chithiraichelvan, IIHR, Dr M Prabhakar, IIHR, Dr Y T N Reddy, IIHR,
Dr P Sampath Kumar, IIHR, and Dr A Rekha, IIHR, were among those who
guided the farmers.
TAFE honoured progressive farmers in the region and recognised them
for their outstanding practices. Two women farmers were also honoured
for their significant efforts in integrated farming practices.
TAFE also conducted an impromptu quiz and felicitated meritorious students from farmers’ families.
Farmers’ Day is one of the unique outreach initiatives undertaken
on TAFE’s ‘J’ Farm. J Farm, a 200-acre property on the outskirts of
Chennai, is an adaptive research and agricultural extension centre,
devoted solely to the purpose of developing better farming techniques
and crop varieties for maximizing the yield of farmers.
TAFE has already covered Tamil Nadu, Andhra and Uttrakhand touching the lives of over 6,000 farmers.
The first Farmer’s Day event was held in Madurai, at TAFE’s
Kalladipatti plant in May 2006. The practice has been observed every
year since then and is celebrated across vivid geographies and cultural
mixes in India.
Under its CSR charter, TAFE conducts various medical camps and donates books and other study material to needy students.
TAFE has recently been felicitated with the Corporate Citizen of
the Year Award at PR Council of India’s Global Conclave held at
Hyderabad.
About ‘J’ Farm:
‘J’ Farm was established in 1964 to provide better returns to
farmers through adaptive research and to strengthen the hands of the
government in achieving self sufficiency in agricultural production. The
farm has been managed as a voluntary not for profit organization as
part of TAFE’s overall Corporate Social Responsibility to its key
stakeholders viz., the farmers and has rendered yeoman service to
farmers in this part of the country. ‘J’ Farm is recognized as an
adaptive research center by both the State (Tamil Nadu) & the
Central Governments
About TAFE:
Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE), the Chennai based
global tractor major, is the third largest manufacturer of tractors in
the world, and second largest in India, whose products meet exacting
customer demands in over 77 countries worldwide. With a history of over
50 years of serving farmers in different geographies in India and the
world, and experience in developing products to work in different crops
and agro climactic/ operating conditions, TAFE’s products have earned a
name for themselves for their quality, ruggedness, dependability, low
cost of operation and long life. It has an ongoing collaboration with
Massey Ferguson (now owned by AGCO Corporation, USA) for over 50 years,
an industry record. TAFE is well known for its design, styling,
prototyping and manufacturing, including a complete range of tractors
for sale by AGCO in North American markets under the Massey Ferguson
brand. TAFE’s products are market leaders in several South Asian
markets.
TAFE has four tractor plants in India, besides an oversees plant in
Turkey, that produce a variety of tractors in the sub 100 HP range in
both the air cooled and water cooled platforms under the TAFE, Massey
Ferguson and Eicher brands. Additionally, through wholly owned
subsidiaries, it manufactures diesel engines, engineering plastics,
gears and transmission components, hydraulic pumps and cylinders, panel
instruments, and batteries and owns vehicle franchises and plantations.
For further information please contact:
Mr. Vijaykumar Browning, General Manager (Corporate Communications), TAFE
Phone: +91-9840342 845 | Email: browning@tafe.com
No comments:
Post a Comment