Union Government launches two mobile apps for farmers

Union Government has launched two mobile applications namely Crop Insurance and AgriMarket Mobile to benefit farmers
These apps were launched by Union Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh in New Delhi to celebrate the birth anniversary of former Prime Ministers Choudhary Charan Singh and Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Key facts

  • The main purpose for developing these Apps is to provide all relevant information to farmers and other stake holders in real time to create conducive environment for raising farm productivity and income to global levels.
  • Crop Insurance mobile app: It will help farmers find out complete details about insurance cover available in their area. It will also help farmers to calculate the insurance premium for notified crops, coverage amount and loan amount.
  • Farmers can use this app to get details and information about normal sum insured, premium details, extended sum insured and subsidy information of any notified crop in any notified area.
  • AgriMarket Mobile app: It can be used by farmers to get the market prices of crops in the mandi within 50 km radius of the device. It can automatically tracks the location of person using mobile GPS and fetches the market prices of crops in those markets.

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6 Comments

  1. Bonvoice

    December 24, 2015 at 11:37 am

    Excellent post, very informative.

    Reply
  2. Bonvoice

    December 24, 2015 at 11:37 am

    Excellent post, very informative.

    Reply
  3. Macks lee

    December 24, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    Now farmers will use internet …
    Incredible India hahahahahhaahh !

    Reply
  4. Macks lee

    December 24, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    Now farmers will use internet …
    Incredible India hahahahahhaahh !

    Reply
  5. nandu

    December 24, 2015 at 4:42 pm

    Bhai farmers already using internet.. Great initiative by government

    Reply
  6. nandu

    December 24, 2015 at 4:42 pm

    Bhai farmers already using internet.. Great initiative by government

    Reply

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