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Total Schemes Available: 9

Distribution of Soil Health Card

Tamil Nadu

Under the “Distribution of Soil Health Card” scheme, Soil health cards will be distributed to all the farmers who have offered the soil sample for testing by paying a prescribed fee of ₹5/- each for Macro and Micronutrient testing.

Soil Health Card

Soil Resource Management and Inputs Quality Control

Puducherry

Through the scheme “Soil Resource Management and Inputs Quality Control", the farmers can give their soil and water samples to the soil testing lab for analysis and recommendation at completely free of cost.

Bio Control Laboratory and Pesticides Testing Laboratory Scheme

Meghalaya

The objective is the production of Bio Control Agents such as Trichoderma, Trichogramma, etc., and further distribution to farmers as awareness and demonstration for organic Plant Health Management in order to promote organic crop production.

Vermicompost Ikai

Rajasthan

In the Vermicompost Ikai scheme, provide subsidies to farmers and Organic fertilizer is a systematic pest-nutrition process in which the soil is made fertile by absorbing other organic substances present within the soil.

Kam Lagat Pyaaj Bhandaran Sanrachna

Rajasthan

Under the Kam Lagat Pyaaj Bhandaran Sanrachna yojana Construction of warehouses should be done at a high level to prevent moisture and dampness which occur due to direct contact of onions with soil.

Plastic Mulching

Rajasthan

Under the Plastic Mulching scheme, the Rajasthan government provided subsidies to farmers. In this, the soil surface of the field is covered with plastic film. Farmer can also use crop residues for laying mulch.

Plastic Mulching

Scheme of Providing Assistance to Encourage Farmers for Adoption of Organic Farming

Gujarat

This scheme has been introduced by the Agriculture, Farmers Welfare and Cooperation Dept., Gujarat. It aims to promote organic farming by providing financial assistance to farmers for certification, input subsidies, and residue testing.

Organic Farming

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IIDS would be the technical platform used for delivery of personalised advisories through KVKs in Kissan Sarathi. IIDS is a push- and pull-based system where agriculture-related information can be pulled from the farmers using mobile phones. IIDS is a combination of smartphone application, interactive portal, and IVRS. A mobile interface is at the front end and a web interface is at the back end. Data is transmitted through voice, text, images, and videos from both ends (farmers to expert and back). This system provides options to farmers to subscribe to the various services. Farmers will then receive individual needs-based information for only those services to which they have subscribed. Farmers have an option at a later date to either select more services or unsubscribe to some of the existing services. The system is connected to a centralized database, which has all information on the farm, farmer, and previous transactions. The experts at the back end (the web application) have access to the farmers’ database while responding to the farmers’ queries.

Unique Selling Point of IIDS
The calls from the farmers are received at the centralized server and routed to the relevant expert. The query information is saved for building context for later queries by the same farmer or other farmers in the local area. The agri-expert has access to the knowledge database of information available and linked with the system. In turn, the expert understands the farmer or the field problem in a better way and facilitates in providing an appropriate solution (Know You Farmer).

Beneficiaries of IIDS:
i) Agriculture Extension Department: The extension division at each State or any other agency can register their KVKs stations and monitor all the query & advisory being received and given by them.
ii) KrishiVigyanKendras (KVK): Any KVK can cater location specific problems of their farmers by using the IIDS system. The coordinator can assign & monitor the jobs to the field extension workers and subject matter specialists for providing agro advisory services.
iii) Subject Matter Specialist (SMS): SMS can provide farm specific information and solutions to the farmer’s queries in real time as well as on offline mode. Facility has been given to offer agro advisories (in various domains) to the farmer backed by his farm history & his query which may be an image or voice or text of the farmer. The expert has access to knowledge database of information available / linked with the system. In turn, the expert is able to understand the farmer / field problem in a better way (KYF – Know Your Farmer) and facilitate in providing appropriate solution to the farmer.
iv) Farmer: Farmers are the end users of IIDS and as per the study the most commonly available, accessible and preferred ICT gadget for farmers is Mobile phones. Thus the system is developed keeping this factor in mind which can cater the basic and value added multimedia agro advisory services to all types of mobile user farmers, independent of their network providers.
v) Field Extension Workers: These can be the local champions / progressive farmers having agricultural experience along with operational knowledge of computer / smart phones. They canl act as an information messenger for the farmers who doesn’t have any smart phone or are unable to send / receive the information on multimedia mode

Technology Components
The IIDS application has been developed using open-source technology such as PHP and MySQL for the web portal; Asterisk, an open-source communication software for IVRS; and Android Platform for mobile application. The major features of the system follow:

Web, mobile, and IVRS–based solution
Centralized database
Role-based access permissions to various operations
Multimodal: voice, text, images, and videos
Multiplatform: backend, web-based; frontend, mobile interface and IVRS
Domain: agriculture, horticulture, fisheries, and animal husbandry
Search and Management Information System (MIS) reports
SMS alert/notification