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Small beverage growers tin present attack the INDCOSERVE beverage factories and rent greenish leafage harvesters, battery-operated sprayers and hedge trimmers.
The inaugural was unveiled by Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), T.M. Anbarasan, successful Chennai connected Wednesday, said a property merchandise from the Nilgiris territory administration. According to the release, the instrumentality is being provided to tide implicit the ongoing labour shortage successful the beverage industry, with the 16 INDCO beverage factories successful the Nilgiris being provided with 1,500 greenish leafage harvesters, 180 battery-operated sprayers and 160 hedge trimmers. The full outgo of the machinery is astir ₹3.25 crore and has been handed implicit to INDCO beverage factories successful Kundha, Kotagiri and Gudalur.
Small beverage growers person been urged to attack the nearest INDCO beverage factories and rent the instrumentality astatine a nominal complaint of ₹50 per portion of instrumentality each day. The property merchandise stated that the inaugural volition bring down labour costs and besides easiness the load connected farmers who are incapable to spend costly harvesting and spraying instrumentality for their beverage fields.
The authorities had already provided implicit 1,000 pieces of instrumentality to farmers successful the district, which they said had been met with affirmative responses from the farmers. The property merchandise added that Mr. Anbarasan besides distributed ₹25,000 to beverage growers who had supplied the astir magnitude of greenish beverage leaves to the factories implicit the past 2 years.
