Mobile apps: Rural India is drastically moving towards digitalization and technology these days. As per reports of ‘The Rising Connected Consumer in Rural India’, a study by the Boston Consulting Group, this share of rural India has jumped to 48% by 2020. Moreover, while 58% of Indian households still depend on Agriculture as their most eminent source of livelihood, it’s time to give more focus on Digital Agriculture for a growing and prosperous India.
Moreover, farming apps are the most convenient and useful medium to guide farmers in farming. It gives you the guideline for doing proper scientific way of farming, crop cultivation, sowing, or harvesting of any crop or vegetables. Farmers can easily solve their farming problems related to pest or insect attacks or any problems which put them in a difficult situation.
A farming app can be the best friend of farmers in farming which can enhance their productivity without spending a single amount of money. You can easily download it from your Google play store without paying a single rupee.
Let’s know some of the best and most reliable Agriculture Apps that are available in India along with regional languages. Links are given below to download.
Best Agriculture Apps for Farmers:
IFFCO Kisan Agriculture
IFFCO Kisan Agriculture App, launched in 2015 and managed by IFFCO Kisan is a subsidiary of Indian Farmers’ Fertilizer Cooperative Ltd. Its aim is to help Indian farmers make informed decisions through customized information related to their needs. Moreover, the user can access a variety of informative modules including agricultural advisory, weather, market prices, and agriculture information library in the form of text, imagery, audio, and videos in the selected language at the profiling stage. The app also offers helpline numbers to get in touch with Kisan Call Centre Services.
Krishi Jagran
This recently launched app, Krishi Jagran, provides trending agri news, cultivation guides, crop calendar, complete information on crop protection, pest, and disease management, subsidies, a career in agriculture, and all the information regarding farm mechanization as well. Through this platform, farmers can get all crop-related information at the tip of their fingers. This easily accessible agri platform connects farmers to the world and provides them with all relevant agriculture-allied information. Click here to download the Krishi Jagran app.
Pusa Krishi
It’s a government app launched in 2016 by the Union Agriculture Minister and aims to help farmers to get information about technologies developed by Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), which will help in increasing returns to farmers. The app also provides farmers with information related to new varieties of crops developed by the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), resource-conserving cultivation practices as well as farm machinery and its implementation will help in increasing returns to farmers.
Agri App
Agri App is a total farmer-friendly app that provides complete information on Crop Production, Crop Protection, and all relevant agriculture-allied services. It also enables farmers to access all the information related to “High value, low product” category crops from varieties, soil/ climate, harvesting, and storage procedures. Moreover, an option to chat with experts, video-based learning, the latest news, and online markets for fertilizers, insecticides, etc. are also available on this app.
Bijak App
Bijak is an online agriculture trading platform that connects verified agri traders (farmers, loaders, commission agents) across India. It ensures suppliers and buyers (commission agent/adati) receive end-to-end services like advance payment guarantee, limit facility, secured payments, mandi rates etc.
Crop Insurance
It’s a wonderful app that helps farmers to calculate insurance premiums for notified crops and provides information on cut-off dates and company contacts for their crop and location. It works as a reminder and calculator for farmers about their insurance. It can also be used to get details of the normal sum insured, extended sum insured, premium details, and subsidy information of any notified crop in any notified area. It is further linked to its web portal which caters to all stakeholders including farmers, states, insurance companies, and banks.
Kheti-Badi
‘Kheti-Badi’ is a social initiative app that aims to promote and support ‘Organic Farming’ and provide important information/issues related to farmers in India. This app helps farmers to switch their chemical farming to organic farming. However, this app is currently only available in four languages(Hindi, English, Marathi, and Gujarati).
Agri-Market
The app has been developed with the aim to keep farmers abreast of crop prices and discourage them to go for distress sales. Farmers can get information related to the prices of crops in markets within 50km of their own device location using the AgriMarket Mobile App.
Shetkari
Shetkari Mitra is a multi-functional mobile app made for farmers in India. It provides information and knowledge about Governmental schemes, crop management, Agri-Business & Guidelines, market rates, and success stories in agriculture.
Kisan Suvidha
It was launched by PM Narendra Modi in 2016 to work towards the empowerment of farmers and the development of villages. The app design is neat and offers a user-friendly interface and provides information on current weather and also the forecast for the next five days, market prices of commodities/crops in the nearest town, knowledge on fertilizers, seeds, machinery, etc. The option to use the app in different languages makes it more widely accessible.
FarmBee App
If you want to become a Digital farmer and start your digital farming journey then download the FarmBee app now.
Benefits of the FarmBee app;
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Rich & Localized Farming Procedures
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Technology/Digital Solutions
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Engaging Matter on Agriculture
KVSMT
KVSMT is said to be one of the best agricultural apps for Tamil farmers. It aims to help them in their journey towards better and innovative farming while increasing their incomes.
