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E-krishi is a market driven agricultural initiative through IT enabled Agri Business Centres to address the existing gap in agriculture information flow and transaction management. The project envisages facilitating and enabling farmers and other stakeholders through Agri Business Centres to interact with agricultural service providers in the private, Government and Non Government sectors. E-krishi envisions a connected  farmers community throughout Kerala with access to information on market demand, prices, good agricultural practices and quality agricultural inputs supported by a technology enabled robust transaction platform that facilitates all their offline activities.

The basic aim of the project is to benefit the rural farmer to get a better price for their produce and as such, they remains the primary focus of the project. However, in addition to providing basic inputs and value added information to the farming communities, e-krishi also targets all the other stakeholders in the agricultural sector in the State. The project has been able to set up a fairly large network of farmers by giving them instant access to information useful to them, including market demand, price, best practices, and expert advice on quality improvement.

The Project was implemented in Malappuram district of Kerala during 2006 – 09 period through 146 e-krishi centres (CSC) spread over 99 Panchayats. The centres are so placed that a farmer need not travel more than three kilometres to reach any one of the e-krishi centres. Seeing the benefits of the project the Government expanded the e-krishi activities to 5 more districts in the State namely Kasargod, Kannur, Calicut, Ernakulam and Kollam during the 2008-09 financial year. The project will be further extended to the remaining districts during 2010-11.

For more details, visit http://www.e-krishi.kerala.gov.in
Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 May 2012 14:50
 

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