Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar on Tuesday launching two mobile apps – CHC Farm Machinery and Krishi Kisan App for Geo-Tagging – for farmers to have easy access to high value and technical agricultural equipment at their doorstep.

Launching the apps in New Delhi, Tomar said 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 equipment.

The Krishi Kisan App, Tomar said, will provide farmers with 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, an official statement said. 

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 the betterment of their cultivation methods and thereby ensuring higher agricultural productivity, the statement added. 

CHC Farm Machinery App is a multi-lingual platform and already available to custom service providers who can register and upload with geo-reference photographs of agricultural machinery custom service centers and photographs of machinery available in it. 

The app will especially benefit small and marginal farmers as they will have easy access to high value and technical agricultural equipment. This app connects the farmers with Custom Hiring Service Centres in their area.

The government said that Custom Hiring Centers, Farm Machinery banks and Hi-tech hubs have been established under the various Schemes like Sub –Mission on Agricultural Mechanization, Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana and Crop Residue Management Schemes of the DAC&FW, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare to provide Agricultural Machinery on rental basis to the Farmers, specially small & marginal farmers who cannot afford to buy the high value machinery & equipment.