Rural India is drastically moving towards digitalization and technology these days. As per the report of ‘The Rising Connected Consumer in Rural India’, a study by the Boston Consulting Group, this share of rural India will jump to 48% by 2020.
Digital India Mission, launched in 2015 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims towards the promotion of digital literacy and creation of digital infrastructure, is apparently helping Rural India to gain this success of the farming community. Moreover, 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 the 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 attack 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 reliable Agriculture Apps that are available in India along with regional languages. Links are given below to download.
Best Agriculture Apps for Indian Farmers:
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.
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, 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.
It’s a useful farming app where farmers can keep up with the latest commodity and mandi prices, precise usage of pesticides and fertilizers, farm and farmer-related news, weather forecast, and advisory. Moreover, it also provides agricultural advice and news regarding the government’s agricultural policies and schemes. As per the official, users can choose from over 450 crop varieties, 1300 mandis, and 3500 weather locations across 50,000 villages and 17 states of India. It is designed with specific tools to analyze or provide information on different aspects of farming habits.
Krishe: Farming & Agriculture App:
Krish-e by Mahindra group is one of the best agriculture apps that provide valuable agriculture information and a personalized crop calendar for your farm. This farm app leverages the combination of technology and experience to provide crop information which improves the crop yield for each farmer. The app is available in 8 local languages. Their personal Advisory covers Land preparation, Seed treatment, Crop sowing, Crop planning, Fertilizer calculator and crop nutrition, Pest and disease management, Irrigation, Weed treatment and Harvesting.
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 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.
Krishe Nidaan: Agriculture doctor Krishi Kisan app
Every year a large proportion of the standing crops get damaged due to various diseases & pests. In order to address these issues, timely identification of crop disease & pests is necessary using new age tools & techniques. This is where Krishe Nidaan app can help the farmers. Krish-e Nidaan identifies common plant diseases and pests affecting your crop and provides an instant solution, simply by uploading a photo of your crop. It is a perfect health partner for your crops & provides the right plant disease diagnosis & scientific solutions.
This pest management and plant fungus detection app is easy to use since all you need to do is use their camera on the phone.
It’s a wonderful app that helps farmers to calculate insurance premiums for notified crops and provides information on due 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’ is a social initiative App which 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 into 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 an aim to keep farmers abreast of crop prices and discourage them to go for distress sales. Farmers can get information related to prices of crops in markets within 50km of their own device location using the AgriMarket Mobile App.
