Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shri Parshottam Rupala said that the training and demonstration on paddy sowing machine is provided at Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institute (FMTTI) located at various places in the country.
Minister counted Budni , (M.P.), Hisar (Haryana) , Ananatapur (A.P.) and Biswanath Chariali (Assam) ; and also through ICAR’s All India Crop Research Projects (AICRP) located at TNAU , Coimbatore , IIT Kharagpur , OUAT, Bhubaneswar, NERIST Nirjuli and at CIAE, Bhopal in this list.
The funds under Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM) scheme of Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare (DAC&FW) are also provided to State Governments for conducting training and demonstrations of various agricultural machinery.
There are about 19 manufactures of Self Propelled Paddy Transplanter machine in the country and the machine is adequately available in the market, Minster underlined.
During last 4 years, ICAR has developed 48 technologies in the field of farm mechanization, he added.