On May 1, 2020, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Road Research Institute (CSIR-CRRI) launched Kisan Sabha Application. The application was launched to connect farmers to freight transportation and supply chain.
Highlights
- The application aims in providing timely support to farmers and help in increasing their profit.
- This is possible as the application minimizes interference of middle men and connects with the institutional buyers directly.
- Thus, the farmers are able to get best market rates for their crops.
- The rates are easily obtained better than the nearby mandi.
Functions of the application
The application helps the farmers in the following ways
- The application connects the transporters and farmers. It also helps service providers, mandi dealers and other customers like online stores, retail outlets and institutional buyers.
- The portal also acts as single stop to every agriculture related entity.
- Apart from farmers and transporters, the application is also helpful for dealers who are involved in pesticides and fertilizer business.
- There are 6 major modules that are operated by the application. They include mandi dealers, farmers, transporters, service providers, consumers and mandi board members.
Background
- Before designing the application, a detailed survey was conducted in Asia’s biggest Azadpur Mandi.
- Under the study, major challenges like wastage and produce being sold at lowest rates were studied.
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