Haryana Government has decided to establish hi-tech and high productive equipment hub as Custom Hiring Centres at the district and block headquarters in 10 districts of the State during 2017-18.
Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department, Principal Secretary, Abhilaksh likhi said that these centres would be established in districts Karnal, Kaithal, Jind, Kurukshetra, Fatehabad, Sonipat, Sirsa, Ambala, Yamunanagar and Panipat.
The applicants who are interested in establishing such centres should submit their application form online on website of the Department, said he.
likhi said that the selected beneficiary would establish such centres and would keep agricultural implements such as happy seeder, laser land leveller, reversible plough, straw baler – hay rake with stable saver, straw chopper, straw reaper, head feed combined harvester, combined harvester (with super SMS), rotavator, mulcher, tractor (40-70 HP as per requirement of implement), mobile grain dryer and mobile seed processor.
The Principal Secretary said that the subsidy from the Department would only be available on the mentioned agricultural implements.
The entrepreneurs including manufacturers are eligible to apply to set up hubs and should be properly registered under competent authority, and should have proper licenses as their work demand.
The applicant should have average annual turnover of minimum Rs two crore in Haryana for the last three financial years, said he. Preference would be given to those applicants who are willing to keep the maximum number of straw management machines and other agricultural implements.
The applicant should not have been blacklisted in any state currently. In case of previous history of blacklisting, all the details should be produced before or at the time of interview, he added.