The lot companies are under going research in agri to reduce labour cost.Not only to redce costs but also their exists scarsity of labour out of Agrimart is one to came out sucessful first.
Agrimart, said the company has in the last 12 years been advocating the small and marginal farmers to take to mechanised farming practices. “It's not been easy; but now, because of non-availability of farm labour and spiralling cost of farm hands, there is some level of acceptance,” he said, referring to the use of mechanised equipments in farming.
He observed that Kerala topped in implementation of farm mechanisation. “It is pathetically lowin Tamil Nadu.
Stating that the company had around 250 types of farm implements, ranging from Rs 15,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh, he said “these are multi-purpose machines and available with accessories such as power weeder, power tiller, pole pruner, harvester, land mower and so on. It does not involve huge investment and the savings is phenomenal,” he added.
To a query on savings, he said “manual weeding is not only time consuming, but labour intensive. With the use of power weeder, it would be possible to complete the job in one-tenth the time.”
The company has a network of 400 dealers and 100 Agrimart stores across the country.
Key word:Agri farm equipments
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