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 stopfor 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.
