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Agricultural Machinery Custom Hiring Centres (CHC) Model Scheme

February 9, 2021
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About Custom Hiring Centers(CHCs)

What is the need for the scheme?

  • Indian agriculture is undergoing a gradual shift from dependence on human power and animal power to mechanical power because of increasing cost for upkeep of animals and growing scarcity of human labour.
  • Further, use of mechanical power has a direct bearing on the productivity of crops apart from reducing the drudgery and facilitating timeliness of agricultural operations. 
  • Thus there is a strong need for taking farm mechanization. 
  • However, the farm power distribution is quite uneven across the States, wherein the highest use of mechanical power is in the order of 3.5 kw/ha in Punjab and less than 1kw/ha in States like Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand etc
  • Mechanical power is largely consumed in big land holdings and is still beyond the reach of small/marginal holdings which constitutes around 80% of the total land holdings. 
  • This is due to the fact that the small/marginal farmers, by virtue of their economic condition are unable to own farm machinery on their own or through institutional credit. 
  • Therefore in order to bring farm machinery available within the reach of small/marginal holdings, collective ownership or Custom Hiring Centres needs to promoted in a big way

Objectives:  

  • To make available various farm machinery / equipments to small and marginal farmers  
  • To offset the adverse economies of scale due to high cost of individual ownership  
  • To improve mechanization in places with low farm power availability  
  • To provide hiring services for various agricultural machinery/implements applied for different operations.  
  • To expand mechanized activities during cropping seasons in large areas especially in small and marginal holdings.  
  • To provide hiring services for various high value crop specific machines applied for different operations. 

Potential for Custom Hiring Centres : 

The farm power availability for small/marginal land holdings is the lowest. As the small/marginal holdings constitute 80% of total land holdings, the potential for CHC which will cater to the farm machinery requirement of such a vast area, is quite huge.

CHC Unit 

  • CHCs are basically a unit comprising a set of farm machinery, implements and equipment meant for custom hiring by farmers. 
  • Though certain implements and equipment are crop specific, the traction units like tractors, power tillers etc., and self-propelled machinery like combine harvesters etc., are used in common. 
  • Therefore, an ideal model envisaged in this project comprise farm machinery that are commonly used for tillage operations for all crops, multi crop equipment and a minimum of crop specific machinery. 

Advantages CHCs

  • Provides access to small and marginal farmers to costly farm machinery
  • Facilitates timeliness in farm operations and efficient use of inputs
  • Promotes adoption of climate resilient practices and technologies by farmers because of availability of appropriate machines at reasonable hiring charges
  • Reduces drudgery
  • Promotes increase in cropping intensity wherever feasible
  • Facilitates crop residue recycling and prevents burning of residues
  • Reduction in cost of cultivation
  • Provides work opportunities to skilled labour and small artisans
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