Kisan Sabha App: To connect farmers to supply chain and freight transportation 

Kisan Sabha App: To connect farmers to supply chain and freight transportation 

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – Welfare Schemes

In News:

• Kisan Sabha App was launched recently by CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CSIR-CRRI), New Delhi. 
• The app is developed to connect farmers to supply chain and freight transportation management system.

Key takeaways:

• The portal connects the farmers, transporters, Service providers (like pesticides/ fertilizer/ dealers, cold store and warehouse owner), mandi dealers, customers (like big retail outlets, online stores, institutional buyers) and other related entities for timely and effective solution.
• The portal acts as a single stop for every entity related to agriculture. 
• Kisan Sabha has 6 major modules taking care of: 
  • Farmers
  • Mandi Dealers
  • Transporters
  • Mandi Board Members
  • Service Providers
  • Consumers. 
• Kisan Sabha aims to provide the most economical and timely logistics support to the farmers. 
• The goal of the app is to increase farmers’ profit margins by minimizing interference of middlemen and directly connecting with the institutional buyers. 
• It will also help in providing best market rates of crops by comparing nearest mandis, booking of freight vehicles at cheapest cost.