The state of Minas Gerais receives New Holland machines that will be used to combat drought and develop infrastructure.

President Dilma Rousseff was present at the delivery ceremony in Ribeirão das Neves

At the event held on the 16th in Ribeirão das Neves (Belo Horizonte metropolitan area), President Dilma Rousseff handed over 58 model RG140.B graders to several local administrations in northern Minas Gerais state. The machines will be used in the reconstruction of roadways the link rural areas to urban zones, and they were acquired by the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA), in order to help in strengthening regional family-based agricultural initiatives, in combating drought and in the development of state infrastructure.

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As well as providing the graders, supplied through a recent tender, New Holland will be responsible for training operators and providing technical support and maintenance. The first training course to qualify 110 professionals is scheduled for 16 to 19 April. In all, the company will provide 459 graders to the MDA. This supply is part of the second stage of the PAC Equipamentos program, which has a budget of more than BRL 1 billion already approved by the National Congress. "We are attentive to the opportunities required by the public sector. Just like in other markets we operate in, we are constantly trying to align our products and services to the needs of this peculiar market", explains the commercial Director for Latin America, Marco Borba.

During the ceremony, which was attended by ministers, members of congress and local authorities, President Rousseff also sanctioned the distribution of more than one thousand six hundred residential units under the Minha Casa, Minha Vida popular housing program as well as 19 school buses.