On Wednesday, Nagaland’s Department of Agriculture launched the State Agriculture Portal (SAP) – ‘nagafarmer.nagaland.gov.in’ at the directorate of the agricultural conference hall.
“With the launching of SAP, the department was committed to providing responsive and effective administration and user-friendly platform for the welfare of farmers and farming community” – said M. Ben Yanthan (department’s press release informed).
“SAP would play a critical role in providing a single access point to government information and services related to agriculture sector eliminating the need to navigate multiple websites and applications” – he said.
He also added – “SAP would present information and services in a single consolidation browser view and also provide a secure and individualized view of multiple online resources and interactive services. Through the use of Information technology (IT) and through the portal, farmers, business persons, and citizens across the globe would be able to access the benefits of IT with just a click of a button.”
He further said that – “SAP would be an effective interactive platform for government to farmers, farmer to businesses and also government to any user citizen so that exchange of information and access to agriculture services could be easy and speedy. With the launching of SAP, the agriculture department would progress and expand in all spheres to boost farming activities by providing a platform to advertise local indigenous farm products, farmers’ markets and provide information about various activities of the agriculture department and other units such as IETC, SARS, KVK, Agri Expo, ATMA, Farmer Corner, etc.”
The programme was chaired by the additional director of agriculture, S. Kivikhu Achumi, and delivered the vote of thanks, who is IT Nodal, SMS. The ‘Newsletter 2020-21’ was also released by the director during the launch programme, and the technical report of SAP was also highlighted by Ramietech Solutions, Kohima.
