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Over 3 Million Yuan Allowance Issued for Purchasing Agricultural Machinery

2016-01-30

In recent days, Chen Duxiong who is one of the farmers of Zhoumensi town of Zixing city got 19,000yuan allowance for purchasing harvester. It was introduced that in 2015, over 3million yuan allowance was issued for the purchasing of 1427 pieces of agricultural machinery, which benefited 1195 farmers and drove over 9.7million yuan to be placed on the purchase of agricultural machinery.

 

From last year, Zixing city kept the specified policies for purchasing agricultural machinery, paid great attention on application of mechanized production of paddy and cole and the establishment of modern agricultural machinery cooperation, and positively carried out the popularization and application of medium and small-sized agricultural machineries suitable for mountainous areas. 1427 pieces of machineries, including 272 tillage machines, 692 mini tillers, 35 rotary tillers, 21 paddy filed boats, 35 hand-held rice transplanters, 50 harvesters, 170 cowper stoves, 93 rice mills, and 11 large and medium-sized tractors, were obtained with the allowances.

 

In order to ensure all the farmers who bought the machines can be professional on operating them, Zixing city organized some major planters, machinery operators, demonstrations of technology, and engineers to carry out relative trainings for them. 5 demonstrations of machine-transplanting which were established jointly by Liaojiang town, Tangdong sub-district, and etc. helped to popularize the promotion and application of machine-transplanting in the whole city.