Agriculture Information Service: Agri Market Information is Now Provided Via SMS

To inform farmers about market information via SMS from the AGMARKNET Portal the Government has devised certain mechanism. From Agricultural Produce Markets (APMCs) on the Agmarknet portal on real-time basis, the daily price information is collected.

Farmers which are registering on the AGMARKNET portal and m-kisan portal are provided with SMS through m-kisan portal. These efforts are made to disseminate desired information on commodities and mandies to farmers through SMS in their local languages.

Besides this, other public and private agencies who have sought live data access through Advanced Programming Interface (API) route from AGMARKNET portal are also provide market information via SMS.

Through voice SMS Iffco Kisan Sanchar Ltd (IKSL) is providing market information to farmers. In three states viz. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Meghalaya in their local languages, Media Lab Asia, is providing Market Information through SMS and interactive way. From Krishi Maratha Vahini in local languages, Karnataka State Marketing Board is also providing market information to farmers.

So far through m-Kisan Portal more than 1194 crore messages have been sent to the stakeholders/registered farmers.

Source:http://pib.nic.in/