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Austria donates excavator for making terrace farm |
October 01: The Austrian government has donated a spider excavator with complete accessories worth 1, 80,000 Euros to the Royal government. The machine is specially designed to terrace farmland.
This means the farmers will no longer have to terrace their farmland manually.
The coordinator of the Austrain Coordination office, Maria Christine Weinberger handed over the excavator to the chief engineer of the Department of Agriculture Kezang Tshering, on Saturday.
The Spider excavator is a new machine in Bhutan. It will be used to shape hillsides making them cultivatable.
Weighing 7000kgs, the machine is expected to enhance land management in the country besides controlling soil erosion and land slide.
The Ministry of Agriculture plans to terrace at least 50 acres of dry Land in every Dzongkhag using this machine.
Dzongkhags can hire this machine with approval from the ministry. Next month the machine will be leaving for Bjabcho Gewog under Chukha Dzongkhag for 4 months.
The machine will terrace 115 acres of dry farmland owned by about 40 households.
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