Kisaan SMS Portal Government of India, in 2013, developed an | CSE MAINS BOOSTER
Kisaan SMS Portal
Government of India, in 2013, developed an SMS Portal for Farmers for dissemination of
relevant information, giving topical and seasonal advisories and providing services through
SMSs in language of the state.
It is an integrated Farmers’ Portal developed completely in-house
by Department of Agriculture and Cooperation.
Agrimarket App
The mobile application has been developed as an initiative under Digital India with an aim to
keep farmers abreast with the crop prices and discourage them to carry-out distress sale.
Farmers can get information related to prices of crops in markets within 50km of their own
device location using the AgriMarket Mobile App. This app automatically captures the location
of the farmers using mobile GPS and fetches the market prices of crops which fall within the
range of 50km.
The prices of agri commodities are sourced from the Agmarknet portal.
Currently, the apps is available in English and Hindi languages.
Crop Insurance Mobile App
Crop Insurance mobile app has been developed as an initiative under Digital India which can
be used to calculate the Insurance Premium for notified crops based on area, coverage amount
and loan amount in case of loanee farmer.
It can also be used to get details of normal sum insured, extended sum insured, premium details and subsidy information of any notified crop in any notified area.
e-NAM
It is a pan-India electronic trading portal, which seeks to connect existing APMCs and other
market yards to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities.
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