The Government has devised certain mechanism to inform farmers about market information via SMS from the AGMARKNET Portal. Daily price information is collected from Agricultural Produce Markets (APMCs) on the Agmarknet portal on real-time basis. Efforts are made to disseminate desired information on commodities and mandies to farmers through SMS in their local languages.
Farmers registering on the AGMARKNET portal and m-kisan portal are provided with SMS through m-kisan portal.
Besides this, efforts are made to provide market information via SMS by other public and private agencies who have sought live data access through Advanced Programming Interface (API) route from AGMARKNET portal. Iffco Kisan Sanchar Ltd (IKSL) is providing market information to farmers through voice SMS. Media Lab Asia, is providing Market Information through SMS and interactive way in three states viz. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Meghalaya in their local languages. Karnataka State Marketing Board is also providing market information to farmers from their Krishi Maratha Vahini in local languages.
So far more than 1194 crore messages have been sent to the stakeholders/registered farmers through m-Kisan Portal. The details of users registered under AGMARKNET, Media Lab Asia, KSAMB & NIC (Karnataka), IFFICO Kisan Sanchar Ltd. is given below
The details of users registered under AGMARKNET, Medialab Asia, KSAMB & NIC (Karnataka), IFFICO Kisan Sanchar Ltd. For market information via SMS
The details of users registered under AGMARKNET, Medialab Asia, KSAMB & NIC (Karnataka), IFFICO Kisan Sanchar Ltd. For market information via SMS
Sl. No | State/Agency | AGMARKNET
(No of Registered users) |
Medialab Asia
(No of Registered Users) |
*KSAMB & NIC
(Karnataka)
(No of Registered Users) |
IFFICO KISAN SANCHAR LTD(IKSL)
|
|
No of Users | (No of voice SMS) | |||||
1 | Andhra Pradesh | 1346 | 10,577 | – | 69,501 | 38,07,125 |
2 | Assam | 6 | – | – | ||
3 | Bihar | 71 | – | – | 3,04,353 | 1,22,42,826 |
4 | Chattisgarh | 219 | – | – | 7,093 | 3,89,978 |
5 | Gujarat | 580 | – | – | 47,374 | 41,84,885 |
6 | Haryana | 297 | – | – | 13,578 | 5,51,923 |
7 | Himachal Pradesh | 27 | – | – | 9,572 | 1,93,689 |
8 | Jammu Kashmir | 14 | – | – | – | – |
9 | Jharkhand | 10 | – | – | 152 | 25,36,768 |
10 | Karnataka | 756 | – | 2,48,353 | 1,03,679 | 75,16,083 |
11 | Kerala | 85 | – | – | 1,25,771 | |
12 | Madhya Pradesh | 431 | – | – | 42,258 | 22,13,857 |
13 | Maharashtra | 2676 | – | – | 34,493 | 54,35,662 |
Meghalaya | – | 9,956 | – | |||
14 | Nagaland | 1 | – | – | ||
15 | Odisha | 85 | – | – | 3,27,250 | 87,90,353 |
16 | Punjab | 1214 | – | – | 24,042 | 10,44,800 |
17 | Rajasthan | 279 | – | – | 81,619 | 69,26,051 |
18 | Tamil Nadu | 1123 | – | – | 22,026 | 10,78,885 |
19 | Telangana | 202 | 10,052 | – | ||
20 | Tripura | 2 | – | – | ||
21 | Uttar Pradesh | 679 | – | – | 5,16,913 | 2,57,05,441 |
22 | Uttarakhand | 15 | – | – | 343 | 53,878 |
23 | West Bengal | 83 | – | – | 1,01,354 | 46,63,642 |
24 | Andaman & Nicobar | 1 | – | – | – | – |
25 | Chandigarh | 5 | – | – | – | – |
26 | NCT of Delhi | 20 | – | – | – | – |
27 | Pondicherry | 11 | – | – | – | – |
Total | 8,74,61,617 | |||||
Note:
1. Under AGMARKNET system, SMS are provided to registered users for 3 mandies and 3 crops of their choice through m-Kisan portal. 2. Media Lab Asia is providing the market information through text SMS as well as interactive way 3. KSAMB and NIC system of Karnataka in SMS in local language. 4.IKSL voice messages * KSAMB and NIC are jointly implementing the scheme. |
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