About Kisan Sarathi Platform:
- It is India’s largest integrated digital agro-advisory platform launched in 2021.
- It provides timely, authentic, and multilingual advisories to farmers. Farmers also get access to schemes, weather updates, and expert consultations.
- It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology and the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
- The Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute and the Digital India Corporation implement the platform.
- The platform uses the Interactive Information Dissemination System (IIDS).
- IIDS enables two-way communication between farmers and experts. It supports lab-to-land transfer of agricultural knowledge.
- It connects farmers with: Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs), ICAR institutes and agricultural universities.
- Features of Kisan Sarathi Platform:
- It provides personalized advisory based on farm and farmer profile.
- It offers live interaction in 13 regional languages with domain experts.
- It provides access to the farmer’s knowledge database.
- It connects farmers directly with agricultural experts.
- Farmers can get region-specific, real-time advisories on weather updates, market prices, and more.
- It helps farmers discover government schemes suitable to their specific needs.
- It provides advisories for all major cereals, pulses, oilseeds, horticulture crops, plantation crops, and fodder crops and also for the livestock, poultry, fisheries, and allied sectors.
- Farmers can raise queries to KVK experts and receive advice in their local languages.
- Farmers can easily access the mandi prices and district-wise market rates for major crops. They can also view the market trends for selected crops.
