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The Center caters services in repairing of farm machineries with the standard repairing charges. The additional service that the clients can avail is that if there is no accessibility to bring the machines to the center, the center perform repair at site.

It is the hiring out of farm machineries to the customers for agricultural production through Custom Hiring, Rental Hiring and Leasing hiring system to optimize land utilization and promote Agricultural Commercialization. The main objectives are: To mitigate farm labour shortages and reduce feminization in agriculture activities. To optimize land utilization, crop intensification and promote agriculture commercialization. Generate employment opportunity and minimize rural urban migration. To enhance the accessibility of the farm machineries to the farmers who cannot afford to own the machines. Farm Machinery Hiring Services Consist of Two Models: 1. Central Hiring Services - Provide Hiring services to the customers by executing the machines deployment from the regional centers as per the cropping seasons. 2. Geog Hiring Services - Provide Hiring services to the customers by executing the machines deployment from FMCL Service Centers and Geog Agricultural Centers. However, ownership of the machine is FMCL.

The machines purchased from the center are installed & tested for free by the center. The clients can contact the center or the Agriculture Extension Officer to avail this service and confirm service provision.

Agriculture in Bhutan plays a very important role in providing the food grains and fresh vegetables for the people of Bhutan. Despite, limited fragmented land holdings by individual farmers, the sector plays vital role in securing food and providing employment. The current agriculture farming in the country is characterized by small mixed family farms operated on fragmented smallholdings. Further, this is compounded with steep slope and rugged terrain resulting unadorned impact on economics of scale and leading to high cost of production. The severe wild life infestation (Elephant) further aggravates the cultivated crop especially in the southern part of Bhutan. Very few cash crops such as potatoes, mandarin orange, cardamom, and apple are currently grown on limited scale and exported to India and Bangladesh. Cereals are grown mostly for household consumption and limited is sold in the domestic market. Over the years, the agriculture sector growth has rather stunted and led to negative trade balance and food imports from the neighboring countries. The negative food balance occurred in the face of prevailing youth unemployment and increasing agricultural land being left fallow. These contradictions are due to inadequate technology generation, human – wildlife conflict, land being allotted for development activities and most of all a lack of organized marketing system in the country.