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PROCEEDINGS
OF
NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ICT APPLICATIONS IN AGRICULTURE
AND MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DAC
19-20 JUNE & 03 Nov 2014
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INAUGURAL SESSION & KEY NOTE ADDRESS
A National Workshop on ICT Applications in Agriculture was organized jointly by the
Department of Agriculture & Cooperation and National Informatics Center in Vigyan Bhawan,
New Delhi on 19 & 20 June, 2014. The response from participants from the entire country
was overwhelming. More than 220 participants from State Departments of Agriculture and
Allied Sectors in 17 States, State Units of NIC, Indian Council of Agricultural Research,
State Agriculture Universities, Indian Space Research Organization and Insurance
Companies took part in deliberations. Besides, this representatives of Agro-Industries and
Progressive Farmers also made valuable contributions during deliberations of the Working
Groups.
The workshop started with a floral welcome of dignitaries and a welcome note from Mrs. Suneja,
Director (Admin). Dr. Ranjana Nagpal, DDG, NIC welcomed the guests and elaborated on
objectives of the workshop and services to be rolled out under national e-Governance
Plan Agriculture (NeGP-A).
The workshop was inaugurated by Shri Ashish Bahuguna,
Secretary (Agriculture & Cooperation) and Shri R.S.
Sharma, Secretary, DeitY. The Secretary (Agriculture &
Cooperation) emphasized that end product should be
made simple and technology should be governed by end
user feedback. The data created by one window of ICT
should be available to all others. For instance, a large
percentage of calls received in Kisan Call Centers relate
to pests and diseases. This information should be made
available to researchers, academia and even common
public. There ought to be enough dialogue with the State
Governments to keep the efforts mainstreamed.
Secretary DeitY laid emphasis on use of scalable systems
and regular updation of data. He also exhorted the
participants to use crowd sourcing for building FAQs,
Knowledge-base and other Data-bases by making
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common public contribute. He also highlighted the thrust given by the Government of
India to cloud-computing, open-source software and interoperability. He suggested State
Agriculture Portal to be customized for various States.
Before this, while giving an overview of ICT initiatives in
Agriculture & Allied sectors in the country, Shri Sanjeev
Gupta, Joint Secretary (Extn. & IT) in the Ministry of
Agriculture, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation,
explained the concept of USSD (Unstructured
Supplementary Services Data) with an illustration of
identification of appropriate machinery along with its
source, by using a very basic phone, having no internet.
He also explained basic features of Farmers‟ Portal and
SMS Portal. He elaborated as to how nearly 100 crore
SMS messages had been sent to the farmers in 11 months based on location and
priorities of crop/agriculture practices of various farmers. New value added features
such as supervisory control, user level delivery reports, graphical dashboard etc. were
also explained. In case of Farmers‟ Portal dr ill down approach down to the block level
along with choice of appropriate crop and all relevant information related thereto were
also demonstrated live. The gathering was informed that Agriculture is number 1 in
terms of e-transactions, among all the Central Government Ministries and Organizations
by a wide margin in e-Taal Portal of the Department of Electronics & Information
Technology. Approval of NeGP-A in all the States with a total value of Rs. 874 crores
was also announced.
Discussion and Recommendation: DAY1
1. E-Parwana – Licensing Application by Shri Kailash,
NIC Pune
The live demo on e-Parwana – Licensing application for
Pesticides, Fertilizers and Seeds from Maharashtra was given by
Shri Kailash, of NIC Pune. He explained features of the
application and their effectiveness. JS (IT) advised to go through
each screen in detail during working group discussions, as this
application has to be taken up for national level roll-out.
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He further explained that system is automated to provide licenses for Manufacturers,
importers, distributers and retailer of Seeds, Fertilizers, and Insecticides, as per
various Acts and orders of Central Government and State Governments. The
person/organization willing to obtain a license for Manufacturing, selling, importing,
storing and any other business for seeds, fertilizers and insecticides shall make an
application to the licensing authority. The licensing authority will check the
application for satisfaction of requirements specified in the respective
acts/orders/laws, and Government resolutions. After fulfillment of these
requirements, the licensing authority may grant a license to that person. He also
explained about applying for renewal of license, online payment, submitting monthly
sales returns, etc.
2. Soil Testing Application by Shri Amit Majumdar, NIC West Bengal
Shri Amit Majumdar of NIC West Bengal gave a live
demonstration of Soil Health Card generation application. The
software has been implemented successfully in all the 10 Soil
Testing Labs (Govt.) in West Bengal. The Computerized
System has helped farmers to get the test results along with
the recommendations within a sustainable time gap. This
facilitation has motivated farmers to approach the Labs for testing more samples for
cultivation of variety of crops in different seasons. The main advantage of this system is
that users get their Soil Health Card (SHC) in time. Earlier farmers had to depend upon
postal method for the receipt of SHC. This application has been adopted by some States
after customization.
Online/ SMS request for soil testing and collection of sample is yet to be incorporated. The
main problem being faced is that at the time of registration that the farmers are not giving
their mobile numbers and dag number (Plot number). Recommendations of the experts are
not included in the software at present. JS (IT) informed that information on recommended
doses of fertilizers should be translated in to the databases. It was suggested that Fertilizer
quantity and quality should be rationalised on the basis of recommendation in SHC. In this
way subsidy can be saved.
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STCR based recommendations are also there but these are applicable on limited area. It
was decided by the JS (IT) that both the methods shall reside and the users may select the
applicable process or may select both to analyse the results obtained
It was suggested by Shri Amit Mazumder that the database will be centralised (i.e. a single
database) for operations by the States. For each State, separate state login page may be
prepared with defined roles/logins for users for data entry/ updation/MIS and Citizen
Interface to the applications. It was informed that the present/existing software also enables
this feature that is perfectly role based with each State having its own administrative rights
for the software
It was further discussed that having information of nutrient value of the soil sample at hand,
how to find the complete set of Recommendations (total requirement) for a particular soil,
thus how to suggest the current requirement (Total - Available) of the particular soil sample.
Mr. Saini of Croplife India raised the issue of integration of the system with plant protection
products. At the time of soil testing, the infections cannot be determined. An advisory can be
provided that may be redundant information to the farmers. This may result in unnecessary
purchase of a particular formulation as the government is not in a position to provide brand
names.
3. e-Krishi Kiran (Gujarat) by Anand Agriculture
University
A presentation was given by Anand Agricultural
University. E-Krishi Kiran developed by Gujarat
Agricultural University aims at generating the soil health
card for Gujarat state and covers most of the farmers of
the state. The software is available in Gujarati only. All
districts and villages are covered in Phase-I. Testing is
done for Macro and Micro elements.
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Provision of recommendations on the basis of crop, season, agro-climatic region and soil
nutrient value is there. A matrix of recommendations has been populated by State
Agricultural University. The matrix is updatable and recommendations are revised annually.
JS (IT) desired to collect all parameters required for recommendations. He desired the
identification and incorporation of the total set of nutrients and other requirements (A) for a
particular soil sample in order to provide the complete recommendation (A-B) where B is the
current nutrient value).
JS (IT) also suggested the incorporation of the dosage requirements w.r.t. to different
combinations of various fertilizers for a particular crop. He advised to get the matrix of all the
parameters to decide “A” in (A-B) system. He further desired that the value of “A” in (A-B) is
to be derived by State level Agricultural Scientists in 3-4 years‟ time. He suggested that
many states have same POPs and whether this information is available in database.
Linkage of each soil sample with the village census code was suggested. Nutrient value
made available on net, would be of use to farmers in the same area.
JS (IT) advised that RGI Census codes are standard codes and should be used in all the
applications for State/District/sub-district/village for interoperability of the applications
Uniform methodology for mapping of variability of NPK for Soil Fertility Maps should be there.
IISS adopted different methodologies for mapping.
4. SMS Portal by Shri Sanjeev Gupta, Joint Secretary (IT) and Ms. Shilpa
Mehta, Consultant ICT
Shri Sanjeev Gupta, Joint Secretary (IT)
gave live demonstration on Kissan SMS
Portal and explained features of the portal.
He informed that the software has been
completely developed in house by ICT
team in DAC.
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The SMS portal is extensively used by all three departments of Agriculture, IMD,
KVKs, SAUs, State Governments down to block level for sending topic based
seasonal advisories and providing services through SMSs to farmers in language of
the State.
Till date around 100 crores messages have been sent through SMS portal. Around 60
lakhs farmers have registered for this and the figure is expected to increase up to
8.93 crores.
Some states like Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra are extensively using the SMS portal
for sending advisory whereas states like Rajasthan Orissa, Uttar Pradesh are lagging
behind.
He further demonstrated the working of SMS portal and explained as to how to send
advisories. He explained the detailed procedure for registration, how search can be
done for advisories and how message is transmitted. Facility is there for phonetic
typing for 12 Indian languages using the typing tools of Microsoft, Google and CDAC.
While explaining the concept of USSD, he lauded the efforts of Dr. Rajesh Gera,
DDG, NIC and his team for their hands-on approach and for providing prompt
implementation support.
JS (IT) further explained about KCC and informed that new portal for KKMS is ready.
He informed that on e-Taal – e-Transactions counting site of Government of India,
Agriculture is Number one.
Decisions Points of Meeting held on Nov 03, 2014
It was also decided that all States need to prepare an escalation matrix for escalating
calls which cannot be answered by KCC agents. Complete process of nominating
and preparing the Escalation matrix has already been sent to all the States.
Username and Passwords will need to be sent to all state Level Designated Officers
(SLDOs) via SMS and emails for this Escalation matrix.
In order to ascertain quality of answers and services being given by KCC agents to
the Farmers, an IVRS based system has also been developed. Farmers will be able
to rate the service/answers at a scale of 1 to 5.
He further talked about the Quality monitoring module and informed that if any
advisory is found to be incorrect, then it will be notified in the database and facility for
resending the corrected message has also been incorporated. He further explained
about the rating of the messages being sent. It was ex provided to user and informed
that farmer can send pull messages for rating and giving suggestions
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JS (IT) also gave live demo of USSD application developed for entering the current
market prices and arrival information from Mandis. He also explained that queries by
the farmers can also be addressed without internet. USSD is as old as Nokia first
handset and is supported on every mobile handset. It can be used for interactive text
messaging.
JS (IT) also demonstrated the dashboard. Drill-down facility of the dashboards of
SMS Portal.
Decisions Points of Meeting held on Nov 03, 2014
Farmer‟s portal pages need to be converted into Regional Languages. The IT
Division would provide the text of static webpages which needs to be put in separate
folders so that States can convert it in their regional language.
Insurance: The JS (IT) told the states that data of insurance is of 2012 year. It has not
been updated since then. It was noticed that most of the States are in fact issuing
insurance premium related notifications with at least one month or more duration from
closing of particular crop season. Thus, the insurance module can indeed be put to
good use. Data from such States may be obtained and populated on the website.
Extension Activities: Under Demonstration Plot, some states have done data entry.
For e.g. Gujarat and Jharkhand have done well. However, plot wise pre & post
activity details have been missing in most cases. Thus States to do data entry as
manpower is available under ATMA and NeGP-A Schemes. Under ATMA scheme
Programmer cum Data entry operator is available and under NeGP-A Phase II, we
have 02 Data entry operators at District and 01 Data entry operator at Block level.
Letter has already been issued from DAC to make use of Manpower under ATMA
and NeGP-A schemes.
JS (IT) requested the States to do Data Entry of various modules developed under
NeGP-A by Nov. 30, 2014.
Under Farmer‟s portal nothing has been done much on Animal Husbandry front.
Therefore, there is a need to integrate Animal Husbandry with Farmer‟s portal.
Seed Dealers: Latest version of the software has already been uploaded. Zone field
needs to be added in Seed Net database. There is a need to have “Edit” feature in
Seed net so that Dealer information can be updated. Option to add non-notified
varieties should also be added in State Jurisdiction only.
Seed Licensing: Under Seed Licensing, data about Seed Dealers needs to be added
and updated by the States.
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All Seed Dealers from Farmer‟s portal needs to be imported into NFSM portal to
avoid duplicate work.
Storage: Under Storage JS (IT) told states to make entry on SWC, NABARD and
NHB. Dummy Data should be removed under storage and all other modules.
Booklet & Flyers: States need to upload the data under Booklet and Flyer Section in
PDF form. The Booklets & Flyers need to appear State/ District wise and also topic-
wise.
JS (IT) also informed the states that those states which would do all data entry
and installation of White Boards in Panchayats would get additional Tablets
and Pico Projectors.
JS (IT) explained the principal and ease of converting existing web based services in
to SMS through kSeva. With the help of a small and concise code available in Java &
.net any web base service can be delivered in an efficacious and pervasive manner.
The Departments concerned need to registers themselves on KSewa through a
designated officer. This officer is to be authorized by Head of the Department or
Organization.
5. USSD Applications in Agriculture by Shri Rajesh Gera, DDG, NIC
Sh. Rajesh Gera, DDG (Health, Video
Conferencing, and Tender Process)
presented the insights into Unstructured
Supplementary Service Data (USSD). He
explained that USSD is in-built service and
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can be used from any GSM mobile handset, no smart phone application, special handset or
internet services is required. There is no need of installing any application on mobile. He further
explained the difference between SMS and USSD. User dials a short code in case of USSD
from their handset and chooses between various options provided in the menu. Two- way
exchange of a sequence of data between mobile handset and the application. SMS is broadcast
technology. USSD is for interaction. Currently USSD is working only on AIRTEL, TATA, BSNL &
IDEA SIM (prepaid or Postpaid). USSD service is toll-free. Hence, end user doesn‟t have to pay
and only department pays. In case of SMS, no SMS is toll-free. Hence user has to pay.
6. Farm Crop Management System (FCMS) and Crop Doctor by Sh. Sandeep
Saxena, APC Tamil Nadu
Shri Sandeep Saxena, Agriculture Production
Commissioner, Tamil Nadu presented the Farm Crop
Management System (FCMS) and Crop Doctor
developed by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. He
explained that FCMS would assist farmers in various
aspects of crop management, helping them improve
the quality of crops grown as well as bring in higher
yields for the farmer. In 2011, Tamil Nadu Agricultural department decided to go for farm
level intervention and farm level advisory system for the farmer. As each farmer is an
entrepreneur who puts his best to the production and thus the aim of the government was to
get him the best productivity and production returns. It was started with 02 districts and 06
more districts were added subsequently. He informed that all 31 districts of Tamil Nadu have
now been covered. He further informed that modules for horticulture, marketing, post-
harvest management and marketing are in development stages.
B. Crop Doctor Application
It has been developed with an objective to bridge the knowledge gap when it comes to
maintaining the crop. It helps the farmer to diagnose the crop health related issues and
find solution. It‟s a know-all solution for five crops- paddy, coconut, banana, Ragi and
sugarcane. It is available in 3 languages- English, Tamil and Kannada. The features of
crop doctor are as under:
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Farmers can upload the photos of affected crops. Maximum of 3 images can be
uploaded. Remedial advisories are given by experts in research stations and by
TNAU scientists.
Mobile advisories are provided. So far 14.88 crore text and 2.1 crores voice
advisories have been given. IIT Chennai is working for IVRS for advisory.
SMS portal of Department of agriculture is beeing used for SMS advisories.
FCMS portal is also integrated with Kisan SMS portal.
JS (IT) told that crop doctor contains scientific names for pest as it is difficult for
farmers to understand. It should have common names of the pest.
7. GIS Applications in Agriculture, Dr. Vishnu Chandra DDG NIC, Delhi
Shri Vishnu Chandra spoke on use of GIS for Agriculture
Marketing Infrastructure. He explained about the GIS
map service and GIS applications in Agricultural and
related sectors. The gist of the issues discussed is as
given below:-
a) Maps can be created up to village level if location
information with Latitude and Longitude is
available. Farmers‟ portal can be digitized up to village level.
b) National GIS has 12 levels.
c) Maps can be used as a service. NIC GIS services are available in
http://nicmaps.gis.nic.in
d) GIS applications have been developed for AGMARKNET, CGWB (Central Water
Information Services), SLUSI (Soil and Land Use Survey of India). It can also be
used for Micro Irrigation, training, extension and for other services also.
e) Databases can be used with locational tags and NIC GIS server can be used.
f) Revenue villages have boundaries but Census villages don‟t have.
8. Use of Satellite Technology – BHUVAN in Agriculture – particularly
Drought Management by Sh. Murthy NRSC
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Shri Murthy gave a very lucid talk on use of
satellite technology- Bhuvan in agriculture. He
informed that this is a software application which
allows users to explore a 3D representation of the
surface of Earth. It is currently available in four
local languages. Bhuvan allows users to view
2D and 3D images, along with information on soil,
wasteland and water resources on the Indian subcontinent. Users can superimpose
administrative boundaries of their choice, from a selection of boundaries available, on
images as required. Bhuvan 2D is compatible with all browsers and operating systems
and does not require any plug-in installation. He informed that Bhuvan services are
available for Agriculture, Rural development, Water resources, Environment, Forests
and Urban development. DDG (GIS), NIC informed that GIS-NIC is also using Bhuvan
maps.
Geospatial Technologies
Dr. C.S. Murthy also talked about Geospatial visualization, analysis and decision making
services. He explained the framework for geospatial technologies as -
a) Baseline information –
b) Information and maps – Sub-district level, Irrigation infrastructure, Irrigated area –
NRSC, Land holding
c) Planning/Services related
d) Rainfall maps, Moisture Adequacy Index, NADAMS Assessment, Drought Management
- Contingency plans and implementation, Drought declaration, fisheries, marketing, etc.
e) MAI (Moisture Adequacy Index) is very important for drought declaration. Drought
index not found in many states.
f) Dr. Murthy explained about the features of Bhuvan. In Bhuvan, 2D, 3D visualization
have been provided. It has inbuilt tools available for navigation. It provides various
thematic services i.e land, weather, ocean, disaster etc. It permits data with high
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resolution, on fly analysis, Layers can be generated like land cover, Crops, transport,
watershed, etc.
g) He informed about the Bhuvan applications for various ministries. He informed that
operational and pilot Bhuvan services are available for Agriculture, Rural development,
Water resources, Environment & Forests, Urban development, etc. DDG(GIS), NIC
informed that GIS-NIC is also using Bhuvan maps.
h) Yield estimation can be done using satellite images. No. of colors are limited. Hence faux
colors are used. Different colors are used for different crops. Variations for Bhuvan
estimations (8%) are less than USDA estimations. (+-28%)
i) Geo-tagging can be done when Bhuvan, support is provided to applications. Every
tehsil/village is geo referenced in Bhuvan
j) He further explained about field data collection. There is real time field data collection
for crop status, soil fertility, pest & diseases. Faux Color Composite (FCC) is used as
discriminate is more in FCC than TCC (True Color Composite). Pest & disease survey
can be done using crowd sourcing. Scale of analysis determines the accuracy of map.
Bhuvan is a collaborative portal.
9. Micro Irrigation System, Gujarat Green Revolution Company, Gujarat
A presentation on the Micro-Irrigation System was given by representative from Gujarat
Green Revolution Company Limited (GGRC). It is an implementing agency for
implementation of Micro Irrigation Scheme (MIS) in Gujarat state. Its aim is to bring
green revolution in the state by saving of water, electricity and enhancing agriculture
productivity resulting in the farmer‟s prosperity at large. Following points were
discussed-
Any farmer can get subsidy of Rs. 60,000/- per hectare or 50% of the MIS cost
whichever is less for any area & any crop. Farmer can choose cropping pattern of his
choice with a flexibility of MIS. Farmer has to apply to GGRC. GGRC verifies all the
documents before registration. GGRC charges 3% per registration as processing fee. It
is retained by GGRC from the amount farmer gets as subsidy. It was pointed out by JS
(IT), DAC that it means a farmer gets 3% less subsidy.
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It was further informed that Gujarat Engineering Research Institute (GERI) decides
norms for M&T quality. It was informed by Odisha that in Odisha BIS standards are
followed and these are strictly adhered to.
In GGRC Micro Irrigation Application, GERI does the quality testing. Prices have been
standardized and if all documents are submitted, application is processed.
Farmers can get complete information about the status of his application through GGRC
portal.
GPS based location identification through geo-tagging can be done.
Third party inspection is conducted.
Farmer gets linked with supplier and it gets expired after 180 days. Supplier approaches
to farmer. Supplier gets the documents. He does data entry for the farmer.
Information on disbursement of subsidy and release of final payment is available.
DAY 2
1. Migration of Central and State Agricultural applications on NeGP-A
hardware by Col (Retd) Ashok Kumar, Principal Consultant, NeGP-A
Col (Retd) Ashok Kumar, Principal Consultant,
Ministry of Agriculture presented activities required
for migration of state applications into Data centers
operational under NeGP-A. He informed that under
pilot phase seven states Karnataka, Kerala,
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh,
Jharkhand and Assam have been covered. Roll out
phase will cover all remaining States and UTs. He gave following information regarding
NeGP-A infrastructure and its usage:-
a) Details of the NeGP-A hardware infrastructure installed in Central Data Centres,
State data Centers and provided to end users. He advised states to take initiatives to
migrate their applications for Agriculture, Horticulture & Fisheries department on NeGP-
A servers.
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b) He further informed that adequate arrangements have been made in the project
for Helpdesk. Two resources have already been deployed for Data Centre support. He
also asked states to identify space suitable for deployment of their resources.
c) EMS has been partially launched on 2nd June‟ 2014 for End User Complaint
Registration. Web interface is ready and USSD interface will also be developed. Present
Helpdesk landline number at Delhi is 011-25843216 , HP toll free number is 1800-11-
2267 and email is helpdesk-negpa@gov.in
d) He mentioned that SLAs for all NeGP-A assets of the state are to be calculated
on half-yearly basis. He further informed that if vendor is not attending the complaints,
very stringent conditions are there in SLA. EMS system generates alerts for logged
complaints. He further informed that State nodal officers and District nodal officers will
be able to monitor the time taken for attending the complaints. However, for this, details
of district level nodal officers (name, Designation, Department, Mobile No., and email
address etc.) are needed. He informed that State Level Nodal Officers details are
available with DAC.
e) Participants from Karnataka and Punjab suggested that IT Secretary/IT
department should also be kept informed about the developments in the projects, as
their involvement is necessary.
f) It was further suggested that all nodal officers should be issued official e-mail ids.
g) It was also informed that there are complaints of e-mail not working. Normally
this happens when officers forget password or when after transfer, there is no proper
transfer of official e-mail id. Transferred officers carry password. It was suggested that
during transfer of charge, email-id and password should be handed-over. Another
reason may be if one is not using e-mail for long duration, it gets de-activated after 90
days and one has to activate it. There is national policy on e-mail of NIC.
h) JS(IT) further explained that for g-mail, authentication is not required. However
for NIC e-mail authentication is required, which is necessary. Hence it takes more time
(2/3 days). He further suggested e-mail may be created by name or designation. It was
suggested that NIC mail should be made more user-friendly. Sometimes push e-mail is
not working in the morning. DDG (NIC) explained that there may be issues occasionally.
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However support is there. It was also suggested that normally officers work with session
always open and connected to server. It is better to use desktop version like outlook,
Eudora, etc for emails.
Discussion Points of Meeting held on Nov 03, 2014
Site Preparation: JS (IT) informed the states that funds have already been released for
Phase-II under heads Site Preparation for locations in Blocks and Training centers,
PMU. The State would start getting the Hardware by February.
JS (IT) also informed that in few states Animal Husbandry departments have not been
IT equipped. So hardware support would be provided to them within overall allocation.
There might be few states like Andhra Pradesh, Telangna which have large population
but few blocks. We should give more PCs in Districts of such States as per allocation.
There might be few changes in Districts and Blocks in the State which needs to be
verified for calculation of Hardware.
JS (IT) also informed that all reporting (Site Preparation, Delivery,
Installation/Acceptance Testing) under NeGP-A would be done through NeGP-A
Hardware Distribution System application.
2. NeGP-A Overview & Feedback on NeGP-A Guidelines by Shri Sanjeev
Gupta, Joint Secretary (IT)
Shri Sanjeev Gupta, JS (IT) presented salient features of
NEGP-A guidelines. He stressed on various components of
guidelines like Manpower at States, districts, Blocks,
establishment of PMU in states, Training and connectivity
issues. It was informed that very detailed description has
been made in the guidelines as to the purpose, minimum
qualifications required, roles & responsibilities and amounts to be paid to various resources
under NeGP-A. He exhorted all the States to follow very transparent procedures for their
recruitment and only appoint persons based on detailed selection process and merit.
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It was informed that manpower is also available under ATMA and other Agriculture related
schemes at district level. District Agriculture officers are best judges to utilize these
resources as per their needs, within a district. States were also advised to ensure that these
resources are paid as per their entitlements and that there is no exploitation by middlemen
or agencies, through which these persons are being employed. He also informed that states
which are getting assistance under AGRISNET scheme, their unspent balances under
AGRISNET (without any future definite plan of action) will be considered as part of GOI
resources available for NeGP-A. Following were the additional points outlined by JS (IT):-
a) It was further stressed by JS(IT), that state-of-the art infrastructure has been provided
under NeGP-Agriculture and it should be utilized by States. JS (IT) further informed that
prices are much lower for establishing this infrastructure than using cloud
implementation for data centers.
b) For Connectivity, Rs. 11000 per year per location will be provided at district & block
levels. States can take broadband or leased line, wherever it in not possible to connect
to SWAN nodes. Dead copper pair can be taken as copper connectivity along with
DSNL modem. Most of the blocks are having 2 Mbps connectivity. For Computer
Operator, funds of Rs. 15000 will be given for every 2 blocks.
c) It was informed by Participants from Karnataka that BSNL is charging Rs. 500/600 per
year, however there are issues regarding speed. It was advised to check concurrency
ratio.
d) It was informed that Touch screen kiosks at the scale of 2 per block and 1 per district will
be provided.
e) JS(IT) informed that training centers are for all and not only for NeGP-A project trainings.
It was suggested that these training centre should have fixed hardware.
f) JS(IT) informed that RFP was to be floated by 31st May 2014. However due to non-
availability of data from states, it could not be floated. He advised states to complete civil
infrastructure and site preparation. He further suggested that programming cannot be
done at State level. He informed that Central Agricultural Portal will be upgraded
Farmers‟ portal.
Discussion Points of meeting held on Nov 03, 2014.
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g) JS (IT) informed the states that funds are being released for Phase-II under the heads
„Site Preparation‟ for locations in Blocks and Training centers, „PMU‟ and Data Entry
Operators. The States would start getting the Hardware by end February 2015.
h) JS (IT) mentioned that in few states Animal Husbandry departments have not been
equipped and the States may also provide them Hardware support under NeGP-A.
There certain states like Andhra Pradesh, Telangana where the number of farm families
is large but number of blocks is less. A separate provision has been made to cater for
requirements of such Sates in terms of more number of hardware in districts and State
offices of Agriculture department.
i) There might be few changes in Districts and Blocks in the States which would require to
be verified for calculation of Hardware.
j) JS (IT) also informed that all States will have to enter data regarding Site Preparation,
Delivery, Installation/Acceptance Testing under NeGP-A through online NeGP-A
Hardware Distribution System.
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3. Market Information by Sh. Rajesh Srivastava,
Shri Rajesh Srivastava Presented on Market Information application. He informed that
around 3200 Markets have been covered throughout the country for collection and
dissemination of arrival and price information using AGMARKNET portal. E-alert application
has also been implemented to get the agricultural commodity prices through SMS/mail.
Standalone application for updation of market information using client server architecture is
in use in 3200+ markets. Web based Application for market information developed and is
under pilot test for markets of Delhi (Narela and Gazipur) and will be implemented for all
3200 markets. Around 3000 new markets will be covered during 12th plan. Provision for
providing mobile/tablets for sub yards markets where Power problem/Connectivity issues
has also been kept. He also informed that integration of web based portal for taking farmers‟
preferences for prices by SMS and KKMS has already been done.
JS (IT) also mentioned a need the need of a weighted average of prices in addition to
present system of Min, Mode and Max. There is a requirement to develop an interface to
capture above information.
There was also discussion on newly developed Buyer and Seller module by DAC
development team, where information could be shared via SMS.
Future arrival and market trends:- State Agriculture Universities(TNAU) and NCDEX and
other Commodity Exchanges are already providing advisories. More SAUs may take-up this
initiative.
Web service based integration of storage databases and Farmers‟ Portal: - Central
warehousing Corporations, State Warehousing Corporations, Private Cold storages and
Rural Godowns needs to be integrated.
State agricultural departments may be requested to provide the information on
State level data on MSP
Choice of right source of agriculture credit to be dealt by the credit division
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Working Groups’ Deliberations and Finalization of Recommendations
Working Group 1: e-Parwana (Licensing Applications for Fertilisers, Seeds
and Pesticides) and related aspects of availability, pricing etc.
Chaired By: Shri Narendra Bhooshan, JS (M&T/INM)
Group Coordinator
NIC
Shri Aseem Gupta, Pr. Systems Analyst
Representatives
from DAC
Vandana Jain (Director PP), R.K. Trivedi, H.P. Singh (INM)
and States Maharashtra, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala,
Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, NIC-Pune, DAC representative, NIC
Punjab, NIC Uttar Pradesh, NlC Delhi (Tulika, Aseem Gupta),
Representatives from industry.
A. Recommendations (Pesticides Licensing)
• License for manufacturer of Pesticides should be as per list of Registered products
shown on CIB&RC website
• Trade name should be made mandatory
• Restricted list or banned list of products given at CIB&RC website should be linked
• Source of Technical, either imported or indigenous to be checked with CIB&RC website
• Various categories like FIM,TIM , Export under 9(3)/9(4)/9(3b) should be mentioned in
the application
• At the time of renewal, sample reports should be checked. Hence License application
should be linked with quality control applications (e-lab) and complaint Monitoring
system.
• At the time of renewal of license, infrastructure for manufacturing needs to be checked, if
these are not as mandated, manufacturing license should be cancelled.
• Information in all relevant forms available in the insecticide act/ rule should be facilitated
by e-Parwana such as Stock, Sales, production, import, packaging size, and
manufacturing and batch no.
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• List of documents required with the application form in e-Parwana should be as per
Insecticide Act & Rule, Fertilizer Control Order and Seed Act.
• Issuance of License should be digitally signed by License issuing authority
• There is a requirement of standardization of formats and unified license Number.
• Issuing of licenses should be as per First come First Serve basis.
• Nationwide one payment gateway for all services need to be established by Govt. of
India
• Location mapping of dealer (pesticides, fertilizer, seed) with GIS maps is required for
development of dealer‟s network.
B. Seed Licensing Recommendations
• List of documents are to be as per Seed Act.
• Application should be sorted on date of submission of application to license
processing/issuing authority
• Application for Producer/Manufacturer should be renamed as per Act. In the seed Act
there is no license for producer or manufacturer.
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Working Group 2: Soil Testing (Soil Health Card) and STCR application,
Agricultural Statistics
Chaired By: Shri E. K. Majhi, JS(RKVY)
Group Coordinator
NIC,
Shri Amit Majumdar, Technical Director, NIC West Bengal, Dr. Vandana
Khullar
Representatives
from DAC
Vandana Dwivedi (Additional Commissioner), Amit Arora, Consultant
M&E
and States West Bengal, Maharashtra, Bihar, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat,
Jharkhand, Meghalaya, NIC West Bengal and AAU Representative, NIC
MP, NIC Pune (Shri Phengde), NIC Delhi (Beena Menon), Malti Negi,
Representatives from Fertilizer Industry
A. Soil Health Card Recommendations
State wise recommendations to be finalised by NIC Pune & IISS Bhopal
Workflow and database fields of West Bengal including input and output screens for the
SHC application to be circulated to all States
Integration of existing data from States who want to continue using their own system so
that the entire data will be at one place
On selection of an area, the software should determine whether STCR or STCR-FYM or
STFRS is applicable
Multiple options for collection of data (soil samples) and record
Types of Labs should appear from a drop down list
The list of sources of samples to be standardised
Facility to enter multiple Khasra/Plot numbers
Units of application of fertilizers and recommendations by the software may be fixed by
choice for example: kg/tons/quintals per ha/acre/bigha
Census codes to be used
Blocks to mapped with NARP zones
SAUs should be involved for vetting the outcome of methods applicable for soil testing
Data on soil types and texture to be collected and made available as basic/master data
Provision should also exist to upload data in offline mode where Internet connectivity
isn‟t available so that data may be uploaded when connectivity is available.
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SAUs should be involved in the development of software and should also be vetted by
IISS
(discussion points of meeting held in R. No. 243 on Oct 20, 2014)
There is a need to identify districts which use STCR equations and which ones use A-B
formula to identify deficiencies of soil for targeted yield. The existing PoPs can be used
for this.
Results of soil test should be sent by SMS on mobile.
Variety wise –recommendations also should be incorporated.
Mapping between top dressing period (varies from Crop to crop), Fertilizer, vegetation
growth, with crop wise.
Working Group 3: Seed Availability Application & Farm Machinery and Fund
Flow Monitoring System
Chaired By: Shri Atanu Purkayastha, JS (Seeds)
Group Coordinator
NIC
Shri D.V. Singh, SSA,
Representatives
from DAC
V. Kale, Dir (M&T), Dr R K Tripathi, Director Extension, S.Selvaraj,
Deputy. Comm.(Seed), Shailesh, DS(INM)
Representatives
from States
Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Andhra
Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, NIC Assam, NlC Bihar, NIC Orissa, Tanu
Grover, NIC Delhi, Representatives from Seed & Farm Machinery
industry
A: Recommendations and Discussion Points
The seed availability module to be circulated to all State Seed Corporations, Agriculture
Universities , Seed Associations and State Government for their comments and
suggestions, and comment to be submitted by respective organization by 15th July
2014. Inputs and feedback received from various States shall be discussed, finalized
and implemented.
The seed sale price is to be incorporated in module
Major characteristics of variety, adaptability is to be mentioned in module.
Inclusion of private research variety of Seed Company.
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A counter is to be included in module.
Multi language support.
Lot wise detail is to be filled.
Filters to be added for report generation.
Discussion Points of Meeting Held on Nov 03
All State Corporations need to be enrolled on the Portal. State government can
coordinate the task. The State seed corporation needs to facilitate the Data Entry form.
Dealer level data entry needs to be done.
Editing of information pertaining to seed dealers to be added in Seed information
System.
Producer and New Dealer field need to be added.
Provision of editing information of existing dealer with variety produced by him need to
be added.
Non-notified varieties will remain in specific State‟s data compartment.
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B: Farm Machinery Related Specific Recommendations
Registration of New Manufacturer- Manufacturer should first select the state and then
click on "Registration button" for going to Registration Page.
In the Registration Form once a Manufacturer has filled all his details then clicks on
Submit Button a panel should open with a Message that “Do you Want to Work as a
Dealer” then Press CONFIRM otherwise Press CANCEL.
If Manufacturer presses CONFIRM button then this Manufacturer can also work as a
Dealer also If He Press CANCEL Button then this Manufacturer can work only as a
Manufacturer.
One Additional Page is required for Registration of Traders. In case the manufacture
wants to be approved by other state. He then selects the concerned state.
Add/ Modify - Engine/ Self Propelled and Animal Drawn in Source of Power.
Under Testing details – add Video Clips of product, Leaflet/Brochure of the Product,
Cover page and extract of the report where signature of testing authority is reflecting.
Under "Dealers Information for Farm Implements" Email id field to be added.
After Sales Service Available (Yes/No) to be added in Product details.
Working Group 4: Farmers' Portal and SMS portal
Chaired By: Dr. Shakil P.Ahamad, JS(Plan Coordination and Policy)
Group Coordinator
NIC
Shri A.N. Mishra, Senior Technical Director Shri Rakesh Vardhan,
Technical Director
Representatives
from DAC
Shilpa Mehta, Consultant(ICT)
and States Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh,
NIC Tamil Nadu, NIC Karnataka, Kerala
A: SMS Portal Related Specific Recommendations
State wise, Entity wise messages in dashboard should be there.
In Dashboard, Graphs should be there for state comparison and interlinking of graphs.
Graphs for user specific dashboard.
Use of AI to generate auto answers of repeated queries with the help of CDAC Pune.
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Publicity of Pull Codes should be done.
Number of farmers registered in state, district and block should be displayed.
For excel sheet uploading, dos and don‟ts should be there.
Option of “Officers registered for sending advisories” should be displayed only to central
and State nodal officers and in case of State, message should go to officers of that state
only.
Department wise state wise reports are not coming complete.
Circulating updated User Manual.
User wise State filter should be maintained.
Discussion points of meeting held on Nov 03
JS (IT) requested State governments to add Farmer Portal and mKisan links on home
page in State government websites of Agriculture department.
JS (IT) also told that state should PUSH the records that are edited and the record
should be overridden and whatever is deleted form it should also conveyed to the
Ministry so that database can be updated. In case of License number, where ever there
is a change it can also be modified it and whenever the License is expired it can be
reflected in the database.
More services in PULL SMS Service should be added.
If lot of messages sent by the states fail to get delivered, IT Division should send the list
of such numbers along with data source to that states for verification.
State Governments and all other departments should start using KSeva for providing
services in an efficacious and pervasive manner. The Departments concerned need to
registers themselves on KSewa through a designated officer. This officer is to be
authorized by Head of the Department or Organization
USSD source code should be shared with NIC so that state can develop their own
Application.
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B: Farmer Portal Related Specific Recommendations
Portal should be in regional language. A module is to be developed where English data
entry should automatically be converted into regional language and an option of
validation by state nodal officers should be given.
User manual of farmers‟ portal in regional language should be there.
Live Chat option should be there in the portal.
List of state wise training schedule should be there and a module for states to upload the
same.
List of nearest SAU, ATMA, KVK and other agricultural allied institutes should be there
on the portal and can be displayed on map itself.
New Research and innovations from ICAR and other research institutions should be
pulled and displayed on the portal.
MSPs will be provided by Agri. Statistics Department through SNO.
Grievance redressal/contact link should be there (Escalation Matrix) and number of
grievances received and replied.
District wise IMD data should be pulled through XML and to be displayed on the web.
Login credentials for uploading POPs can be given to SAUs.
District-wise dealers report to be incorporated.
Pesticides & Fertilizer dealer‟s data entry to be separated.
Agriculture Insurance Details should be there on the web.
Animal Husbandry & Fisheries information should be linked.
Text to Voice facility should be there.
Responsive website should be made so that it can be easily accessed on mobile without
scrolling.
Ground Water Maps should be linked.
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Working Group 5: Training Applications Agricultural Extension
Chaired By: Sh. Sanjeev Gupta, JS (Extension)
Group Coordinator
NIC
Pratibha Lokhande, Technical Director, Shailendra Saxena, PSA
Representatives
from DAC
Mrs. Suneja, Director(Administration), Prashant Armorikar, Joint
Director, Natarajan, Consultant
and States Punjab, Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Assam, Maharashtra, Bihar, NlC Andhra
Pradesh, NIC Gujarat
A: Recommendations for Application
Capturing feedback of participants at different levels and creating the database. This will
include following:-
Session wise/ resource person wise feedback to be captured.
o Feedback / suggestions on Training Methodology
o Feedback on Field visit/ Logistics.
o Feedback on the content covered.
o Suggestive Topic to be included in future training.
o Feedback on training materials
o Suggestions from participants on adoption / use of information / knowledge/ skills
gained from training.
o All off-campus/ on-field trainings may upload the training feedback, within 2 days.
Nomination system may be included as part of the software.
Enrollment of Experts/ resource persons (including retired Officers/ Scientists)
Online Application and acceptance
Registration for getting Training Schedule details on Mobile/e-mail.
Nomination system may be included as part of the software.
Enrollment of Experts/ resource persons (including retired Officers/ Scientists)
Online Application and acceptance
Registration for getting Training Schedule details on Mobile/e-mail.
General Points
1. Advantages of a Centralized Training Module for States
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Should be able to monitor all training issues. (Tracking Nomination & Participation in
Training Programmes).
Tracking training infrastructure.
Training experts‟ availability.
Availability of institute wise training calendar. This will also facilitate centralized
monitoring of all the training programme (Institute wise, subject Wise, area wise, Period
wise, participants Category wise) their feedback by DAC.
Data-based decision making to undertake new or desired training programme / fine tune
training content of existing progrmame.
2. States Willing to adopt central Application with certain customisation
Bihar
Jharkhand
Kerala
Karnataka
Gujarat
Tamilnadu
West Bengal
An advisory committee may be constituted at DAC/DOE level with representation from
selected State Dept. of Agriculture, few farmers, ICAR, SAUs, SAMETIs, EEI and
MANAGE to coordinate with NIC Team.
The State Nodal Officer may nominate an agency/ Institute to coordinate with all
stakeholders (Agril./Horti/AH/SAU etc.) and NIC for customization / implementation of
Extension & Training information system for concern state.
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3. Recommended Institutions to be included
All ICAR institutions (including KVKs), EEIs, All SAMETIES, All SAUs, ATMAs, Central
Agricultural Universities, FTCs / DTCs, RARS / HRS/ZRS, SIRDs, NABARD/ Banks/R-
SETIs / ICMs, ETCs, Others allied sector universities (Horti. / AH/Fisheries etc.)
General Recommendations
Development of software on lines of Digital Green to be used with Pico Projector.
Integration of Training applications with FCMS & Extension Information System
o The manpower of schemes viz. NHM/NFSM/RKVY/ Extension Reforms to be
consolidated & allotted responsibilities for specific villages along with their geo-
coordinates.
o Each extension functionary to be mapped up to Village level & his /her movement
details & activities to be captured through GPS.
o All field functionaries to be provided hand held devices/ Pico Projectors to update
their activities/ information collected at the village level online/ offline.
o All functionaries to capture farmers details, requirements, crops, area visited,
feedback and upload.
o Extension functionaries may also collect information on innovation, success
stories along with geo-tags and photographs.
o The extension functionaries must carry the basic information of the area along
with POP and good films on the major crops/ success stories and
information on all Govt. Schemes (Central/ States) along with entitlement.
Content for the Display Board in each village.
o Name & Contact details of All District / Block/ villages level functionaries starting
from farmers friend/Krishak Mitra.
o Movement scheduled of Extension Functionaries.
o New features of Farmers Portal/ KCC for Farming community.
o Name & contact nos. of SAU/KVK scientist.
o Any major extension event( Field day, Joint Visit, VBT/ Meeting of CIGs/FPOs)
o Next date / Subject of farm school.
o Contingency alerts.
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Extension Reforms Application (Discussion Points of Meeting held on Nov 03)
While reviewing the progress of data entry of extension activities on portal, it
was noted that except Gujarat and Jharkhand, complete data entry was not
being done by the remaining States in the EMS Portal. J.S. (Extn.), therefore,
expressed concern over such lackadaisical approach of other States, despite
the fact that there is no dearth of man power at district and block level, i.e.,
the Computer Programmer/ Operator under ATMA/ NeGPA and AGRISNET.
He emphasized that if states put the data available with them on Portal, a
revolution can take place in the field of ICT in Agriculture. In order to make
a head-start with this activity, it has been decided that quarterly entry
of the first two quarters of the financial year 2014-15 and Monthly
Progress Report from September, 2014 must be completed within first
fortnight of November, 2014. From October, 2014 only electronic data
entry will be accepted and backlog entry must also be got done
separately in time bound manner.
Comments from States on Revised EMS Portal:
Tamilnadu: They found an error in opening the page of Portal. J S (Extn.)
observed that other States are not facing such problem in opening Portal’s page
and they are making data entry regularly. He said that there could be local
problem in Tamilnadu and same could be sorted out with local NIC officials.
Developers should nevertheless check browser compatibility issues
Gujarat: Suggested followings for:-
Designation of non-ATMA manpower in EMS Portal should be incorporated.
Entry of targets for EPF, ESIC, Service Tax and Service Provider’s profit etc. in
respect of state Coordinator should be made on monthly basis.
They also suggested that there should be data entry for EPF, ESIC, Service Tax
and Service Provider’s profit etc. in the Portal. in respect of ATMA manpower.
As the Computer Programmers/ Operators have been provided at district level
also, data entry in respect of both targets and achievements should be made at
District level and not at State level.
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Jharkhand: They have tried to enter data on Revised EMS Portal at State &
District level but facing following problems which need clarifications:-
Under Demonstration (B3) Component, there are two types of
demonstrations [Agriculture & allied sector) which may be separated in
the online form.
Some of the activities like Mobilization (B5), B11, and B14 have been
shown at State level in place of data entry at district level. Of course
there is a provision to update the same for district but it is cumbersome
to do for each such component/sub- component.
Research-Extension linkage should be renamed as Farmers-Scientist
Interaction as per the Guidelines so as to avoid any confusion at district
level.
SAMETI Jharkhand has added one entry as Dy. Director but it is not
able to modify the qualification option as portal indicates that the record
already exists.
Add Blocks of Khunti District in EMS Portal.
Sikkim:
State level Password is not working.
Meghalaya:
Allow target & achievement data entry at State level as swan is not
working at District level. JS (Extn) clarified that target entry should be
done at State level but achievement entry should be done at District
level.
Assam:
Changed name of district i.e. Dima Hasao should be reflected in place of
NC Hill in EMS Portal
Udalguri District was also not reflecting.
Punjab:
Total number of Blocks in the State is 145 and not 141.Same should be
amended in the portal.
Mizoram
In RKVY Portal, district data has been shown 20 years old.
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Working Group 6: Fertilizer Quality Control and Other NeGP-A Services
Chaired By:
Group Coordinator
NIC
Anju Kapoor, NIC , Balasundar, PSA, NIC, Rajesh Srivastava, G.
K.Tiwari, Janardhan, Sanjay Sharma, Shahid
Representatives
from DAC
Col (Retd.) Ashok Kumar, Principal Consultant, NeGP-A
and States Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh,
NIC, Odisha
A: Fertilizer Licensing Recommendations
Dealer‟s data of mFMS may be taken as base database. Since it is in use and
transactions are happening from it.
o System may provide option to edit the wrong information and add the unfilled
information.
o This data base should be available to all applications dealing with dealers.
o The data will get maintained and managed centrally
Wholesaler‟s monthly stock position may be taken from mFMS
District may enter retailers monthly stock data into mFMS
Standardization of formats and unified license number should be done
Location mapping of dealer (pesticides, fertilizer, seed)
No. of documents to be reduced.
The present workflow is based on the system of Central Fertiliser Quality Control and
Training Institute.
Since Central Coding Office (CCO) concept is not being followed in most of the states, it
can be suitably modified according to their requirements.
The mixture of N.P.K and micronutrient fertilisers which are state specific should also be
included in the master list. Similarly Provisional and customised should also be included
in the master list.
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Mobiles will have to be provided to all the inspectors
Necessary amendments should be made in fertiliser Control Order (FCO) to make it in
conformity with the software developed.
Digital signatures of the concerned officials should be incorporated.
Product wise details of samples collected, analysed and found non-standard should be
incorporated.
Details of Referee samples should also be included in the workflow.
Discussion Points of VC held on Nov 03
There are around 11,000 Fertilizer Inspectors in the country. States should enter
details of Fertilizers Inspectors in the one-time registration interface.
Interface needs to be designed for capturing the details of this Fertilizer inspector.
This would come through mKisan.
There is also a need to define the roles of Fertilizers inspectors in the application.
Laboratory number also needs to be captured.
IT Division has been creating data entry screen for capturing Inspector and
Laboratory details.
JS (IT) instructed the NIC to design application for capturing details of the Fertilizers
Inspectors by end of this week.
Andhra Pradesh informed that they are already using the system developed by
State. JS(IT) told them they can continue with using their system but other States
should use the system developed under NeGP-A
NIC would give the Link by the end of week to enter Laboratories details.
mFMS (discussion points of meeting held in R. No. 243 on Oct 20, 2014)
Dealers and resellers are not mapped to the blocks in terms of jurisdiction.
Linkage of Block – Village is not there. This mapping of Block to villages also needs
to be created so that farmers can be provided information of fertilizers
availability in and around their area.
On Dealers side following features need to be incorporated :-
System for Cancellation of expired Licenses.
License Number Authentication / Check Genuineness of License
list of Products
Mobile numbers to be Updated
Product wise report (As has been provided for dealers‟ information, similar view
should be there Product wise also i.e. State, district, product combo box etc.
Option of advance search in the form of combo boxes to be provided for end users.
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Hyperlinks to be provided in the In Tabular view.
Look & feel of the Tabular view to be improved with the help of designer.
“District wise Stock Availability - within “5 days” “OR“ overall total stock Availability”.
Fertilizer pricing information also to be made available.
A particular wholesaler covers which districts. (maintain district wise track)
The application should also be able to keep record of following :-
Frequency of wholesaler sales.
Dealers‟ receipts with date time.
Dealers‟ sale to farmers
Wholesalers‟ jurisdiction
Dealers‟ information for subscription for USSD for entering sales & stock
data.
B: Forecasted Weather Related Specific Recommendations
Season wise crop should be displayed.
Provision of uploading logo like those of Universities, AMFU be made.
An interface is required for adding new variety at district level.
Header of logged AMFU and logo should be displayed in generated bulletin.
Provision of multiple crop selection required.
In crop Advisory report format is overlapping.
In generated bulletin advisory should come for sector and crop wise.
Provision for regional language advisory.
Block level advisory should be kept separate to avoid time taken in generating bulletin.
SMS/web/Email should have same advisory.
Generated bulletin can be emailed as attachment.
Explore possibility for English and local language advisory in the same page.
Like IMD, CRIDA and KCC sending advisories to farmer. Suggested that advisories
should be from one source to avoid confusion. IMD can be made one source.
There is a requirement to refine existing Pest database so that it can be put to use.
It was felt that there is a need to popularise the Forecasted Weather Advisory module in
the States as it is ready for the purpose.
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There are 02 modules in this service one for Database of Weather & another Module for
advisories crop wise
Refining of Pest Database should be done.
Forecast & Past Data of weather should be converted into digitally interpretable
database& shared with States, DM Division & MNCFC
C: Micro Irrigation Related Specific Recommendations (Karnataka)
Land number should be linked with Khatauni number to avoid the duplicities of
beneficiaries. Khata indicates ownership. Shri Karthikeyan informed that linking to Bhumi
records is being done.
Survey number should be checked electronically.
Geo-tagging should be done.
First come first serve basis against random (lottery) selection of beneficiaries was
discussed at length. It was discussed that targets should be given to each panchayat
and within panchayat lottery system may be adopted. Randomization should be done
electronically and publicly. Committee should be there to check whether randomization
has been done randomly. Technical and administrative persons to be included in the
committee. Sanction should be automated. Human intervention should be removed
wherever possible.
Date should be included in the dashboard screen of Micro irrigation system. It should be
ordered by date.
The Application should be linked to e-Taal, so that transactions will be counted and
reflected against State name.
The Application processing should start once the application is received online. Decision
may be taken only when physical copy along with all requisite documents is received.
Information on Irrigation equipment‟s, their dealers and manufacturers to be provided via
USSD.
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D: Drought Relief Management Related Specific Recommendations
Preparation of Contingency plan by district agricultural officers.
Guidelines have to be taken from Central Research Institute for Dry land Agriculture
(CRIDA) and SAU
Implementation of contingency plan (a) Input requirements (b)Alerting farmers through
SMS
Input screen should be prepared for collection of indicators/parameters [Rainfall
Deviation Index, moisture adequacy Index, Crop yield (CCE), Crop sown area,
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)] for declaration of drought at block level.
The state department has to confirm whether these parameters are available at block
level. At least 3 indicators should be fulfill to declare the drought.
The information on all the parameters mentioned in NDRF guidelines for resources
required to manage the drought situation should be collected.
Fodder requirement
Seed requirement
Fertilizer requirement etc.
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