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Farmers get high-tech machines from NCIA

KEPALA BATAS: Some 1,000 padi farmers of the State Farmers’ Organisation (PPN) were delighted when their association received 77 units of agricultural machineries to boost their crop output here, recently.

Northern Corridor Implementation Authority (NCIA) gave the farmers 10 types of machinery, including tractors and rotavators, in Seberang Prai Utara to increase productivity.

The elated farmers gathered at the PPN machinery division in Pokok Sena, here, to attend the handover of the machinery worth RM4.2 million.

NCIA chief executive Datuk Redza Rafiq presented a mock key of the machines to representatives of PPN.

Also present in the event were PPN director-general Datuk Arpan Shah Satu and Permatang Berangan assemblyman Omar Abdul Hamid.

Arpan said the capital intensive approach, in its first phase, would increase padi output to eight metric tonnes per hectare on average from the current six metric tonnes per hectare by 2020.

“Many farmers have embraced the use of new technologies to improve yields.

“We are hopeful that the machineries will be part of their daily routine in the next phase of our programmes,” he said.

Meanwhile, Redza said the machineries contributed would be pooled under a sharing scheme so all farmers would have fair access to them.

The farmers are from nine locations, namely — Guar Kepayang, Jarak Atas, Pokok Tampang, Permatang Tok Gelam, Permatang Bogak, Bumbang Lima, Lahar Minyak, Lahar Kepar and Paya Cina.

Some 2,000 hectares of padi fields are found in Seberang Prai Utara, the largest rice harvest area in Penang.

-NST

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