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Are these machines viable anymore?

These tractors have become a liability for rural India. Landholdings are getting smaller every year and debts are rising. Its time farmers shifted to a system where societies do care of the expenditure of buying tractors and maintaining it. I have never seen a farmer who might have earned profit from a tractor and purchased new one. Most of the farmers have to mortgage their land to repay the loans. Major cause of indebtedness among Punjab farmers is owning a tractor. As per rough a estimate rural debt is estimated to be Rs 35000 crore in Punjab. Punjabis Owning a tractor is nothing but a status symbol. But there there are some automobile brains, like Zamindara farm solutions and others, who offer to lend tractors to needy farmers. They also supply other machines used in the farming at a very reasonable price. For a developing society like India, this model should be replicated elsewhere, where incidents of suicide is very high. Zamindara farm solutions have 6000 uses in Punjab and the number is swelling by every year. As per the data of Punjab agriculture department, Punjab has around 5 lakh tractors, where there is need of only 1 lakh tractors.

(writer posing with a tractor)