Kisan Sarathi

Government of India

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Total Schemes Available: 7

National Mission on Natural Farming

Ministry Of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

The scheme aims to promote natural farming practices through capacity building, training, certification, and financial assistance for on-farm input production infrastructure, thereby reducing cultivation costs and increasing farmers' income.

Natural Farming

Chemical-free Farming

Student READY (Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana)

Ministry Of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

The Student READY (Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana) program aims to provide rural entrepreneurship awareness, and practical experience in a real-life situation in rural agriculture, and create awareness to undergraduate students about practical agriculture and allied sciences.

Research And Education

Agri-Clinics And Agri-Business Centres Scheme

Ministry Of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

A welfare scheme by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare was launched in 2002. AC&ABC aims at agricultural development, supplementing the efforts of public extension by providing extension and other services to farmers either on a payment basis or free of cost as per the business model.

Development Support for Coffee in Traditional Areas: Replantation

Ministry Of Commerce And Industry

The objective of the scheme "Development Support for Coffee in Traditional Areas: Replantation" is to improve the production and productivity of coffee plantations by encouraging replantation of old/senile and unproductive plantations with high-yielding, disease-tolerant coffee varieties.

Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana

Ministry Of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

The Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY), launched in 2015, is an extended component of Soil Health Management (SHM) under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS), National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA).

Organic Farming

Pesticide-free Agriculture

Cluster Based Farming

Bio Fertilizers

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© Copyright Kisan Sarathi, Powered by Interactive Information Dissemination System (IIDS). All Rights Reserved.
Designed & Developed by Digital India Corporation

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