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In a bid to bridge the gap between agriculture and technology, the West Bengal agriculture department Sunday distributed 13,554 units of farm machinery like combine harvesters, rice transplanters, tractors and power tillers among farmers in East Bardhaman district...
Officials said the farm equipment was distributed among farmers during a programme at the residential training centre Matigantha in the district.365.
These centres include 47 combine harvesters, 102 tractors, 2,567 power tillers, 228 solar pump sets, 144 multi-crop threshers, 23 maize sheller/threshers, 12 rice transplanters, 1,249 rotavators, 690 power weeders, 39 potato diggers, 21 mini oil mills and 180 mini rice mills, an official said.. West Bengal Agriculture Minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay said, The process of farm mechanisation in Bengal started after CM Mamata Banerjee came to power..
