With a view to providing advanced agricultural technology to farmers, the State Government on Friday signed Memorandums of Understandings (MoUs) with three companies in the presence of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at Haldhar Krishi Expo here on Friday.
These companies include Maschio-Gaspardo of Italy, Kubota of Japan and Fiat (India) Private limited of New Holland. The MoUs have been signed by the Directorate of Agricultural Engineering.
Maschio-Gaspardo has 13 plants in the country. Recently it established a new plant at Pune. The company would help boost production of soybean, maize and cotton through advanced technologies and machines. It would make available SP Numatic, multi crop power harrows, fertilizers spreaders and shredders to the Directorate of Agricultural Engineering.
Kubota company of Japan would help the Agriculture department in enhancing productivity of paddy. Interna-tionally renowned for manufacturing tractors and other farm implements the company has recently set up a plant at Chennai. It will provide self propelled rice transplanters and seedling machines to increase productivity of paddy through mechanized paddy plantation in the state.
New Holland-based company would help farmers to boost production of sugarcane, cotton, maize and soybean. The company has agreed to make available 18 machines including sugarcane harvester, baler-rack, cotton picker, fodder maize harvester, Numatic cotton planter and sugar infielder.