App to help farmers upload crop info

Nagpur: The revenue department in association with Tata Trust has developed a mobile app ‘e-peek pahani’ where farmers can upload information about their crops and reduce the workload of the talathis.
This app encourages participation of farmers using technology. A government resolution was issued on July 30 and IT and field officers from the revenue and agriculture departments of the district have been undergoing training.
“This application will be helpful for farmers to understand what benefits can be secured when their crops go to the market,” said collector Vimala R.
“Word about this app needs to reach maximum people so that farmers can utilize it,” she added. A demo of the app was presented at the collector’s office on Wednesday.
This project by the state government will facilitate planning of the agricultural sector by giving definite statistics about how much area is under which crop. It will also help the agriculture department to provide benefits to account holders for schemes payable for specific crops such as drip irrigation or sprinkler irrigation. The survey will also be beneficial to estimate the area under cultivation and yield of paddy, cotton, gram and tur procurement schemes at basic prices.
Some important steps have been taken to implement this project across the state. The administration process of this project started on August 1. Publicity training and awareness is under way until August 14. Registration of farmers and information about kharif crops will be uploaded with photos from August 15 to September 15. In the next 15 days, talathis and agricultural assistants at the village level will have to verify 10% of the samples and give final approval through the app.
From October 1 onwards, farmers will be able to upload information about rabi crops. Farmers can install this app from playstore on their smartphones. The agriculture department, Tata Trust, revenue department, Maha IT and National Information and Science Centre will work in coordination for this project.