App for farmers launched

THENI

Collector M. Pallavi Baldev launched Uzhavan, a mobile app for farmers, at the Collectorate here on Saturday.

Launching the app, she said it would provide information on agricultural operations and offer nine services, including details on crop insurance, agriculture schemes, advance registration of names by beneficiaries, crop insurance, stock of fertilisers and seeds, centres hiring agri equipment and machinery, market price of commodities, climate condition and monsoon details and periodical visit of agri extension officers to various places.

Forty extension officials meet farmers in the district twice a month. Farmers may download this app through Google playstore. Farmers would also get weather updates for the next four days, she added.

Besides, it would also provide information on subsidies available for schemes under various categories, including seeds, machinery, solar pumpset, shade net, poly house, pack house, hi-tech nursery, small nursery, new tissue culture lab, anti-bird net, plastic mulching, beehives, pre-cooling chamber, reefer van, mobile vendor cart, low-cost onion storage and mushroom cultivation.