Farmers In India Will Now Have Easy Access To Agricultural Equipment At Their Doorstep

Through CHC Farm Machinery App, Farmers can select and order the required machinery at the rates feasible for them from the Custom Hiring Centers located in the radius of 50 Kms.

Union Minister for agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar on 24^th of September launched two mobile Apps– ‘CHC Farm Machinery and Krishi Kisan App for Geo Tagging’.

Mr. Tomar in a press release stated, “farmers will now have easy access to high value and technical agricultural equipments at their doorstep.”

The Minister said that through CHC Farm Machinery App, farmers can select and order the required machinery at the rates feasible for them from the Custom Hiring Centers located in the radius of 50 Kms.

The Minister added that till date more than 40,000 custom hiring service centers have registered on this mobile app for renting over 1,20,000 agricultural machineries and equipments.

The Krishi Kisan App

The Krishi Kisan App will provide farmers the information of Best demonstration of high-yielding crops and seeds in their nearby area.

Any farmer with High Quality of crops can utilise this platform to demonstrate best practices of cultivation to other farmers so that this will help other farmers also to adopt these methods.

The App will also help in geo-tagging and geo-fencing of crop and give weather forecast message to farmers.

The Minister requested every farmer to utilize these services for betterment of their cultivation methods and thereby ensuring higher agricultural productivity.

The Multi-lingual Mobile App CHC Farm Machinery

Through this app, farmers, especially small and marginal farmers, will have easy access to high value and Technical agricultural equipments which will facilitate optimum use of all types of inputs using these farming machines.

This will not only increase the income of the farmers, but it will also take mechanization to maximum farm holdings in a short time frame.

This app connects the farmers with Custom Hiring Service Centres in their area. The app can be downloaded on any Android phone from Google Play Store.