Kisan Suvidha and Pusa Krishi App

Kisan Suvidha App

Launch Year: 2016

Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Aim: To provide information on weather, market prices, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and agricultural machinery.

Key Features: Following facilities are available on the app –

(Kisan Suvidha and Pusa Krishi App)

• Weather – provides weather report for that day and weather forecast for next five days of a selected district. Extreme weather alerts are also provided.

• Dealers – Name, Mobile number and Address of the dealers of Seeds, Pesticides, Fertilizer and Farm Machinery are provided.

• Market Prices – information about rates of various crops in different mandies are provided.

• Plant Protection – Crop specific information related to pest management are provided. If the condition of crop is not normal, farmers can upload a picture/photo of the crop and send it through kisan suvidha app to agriculture experts for advice.

(Kisan Suvidha and Pusa Krishi App)

• Agro Advisories – Information from agriculture experts of districts regarding the advisories about activities to be undertaken and precaution to be taken staring from sowing to harvesting.

• Contact KCC – This option provides facility to speak to Kisan Call Centre (KCC).

• Soil Heath Card – option gives information about Soil Health Card, so that farmers can use fertilizer and pesticides judiciously having regard to minerals available in a particular land/farm.

• Cold Storage and gowdowns – information about warehouse and cold storage available in the district like warehouse / cold storage, name of manager, address, storage capacity and phone number etc are provided.

(Kisan Suvidha and Pusa Krishi App)

Pusa Krishi App

Launch Year: 2016

Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Aim: To help farmers to get information about technologies developed by Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), which will help in increasing returns to farmers.

(Kisan Suvidha and Pusa Krishi App)

Key Feature: • The app also provides farmers with information related to new varieties of crops developed by Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), resource conserving cultivation practices as well as farm machinery and its implementation will help in increasing returns to farmers.

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