CM launches app for farmers

Chief Minister Edappadi K.Palaniswami on Saturday launched ‘Uzhavan’, a mobile app for farmers, at the Secretariat.

According to an official release, the app would provide complete real-time information about agricultural operations and offer nine services, including details on crop insurance.

Through the app, the farmers could get weather updates for the next four days and price information about agricultural inputs, it added.

The app, available on Google Play Store, would provide information on subsidies available for schemes under various categories — seeds, machinery, solar pump set, 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.

Mr. Palaniswami also launched farming machinery and equipment worth ₹14.10 crore, including 50 tractors procured by the government, that can be rented at low rates by farmers.

He also inaugurated an environmental park, constructed at Kanniyakumari at a cost of ₹4 crore.