Online Help for Farmers : Government Initiatives
The
Government of India has recently launched three portals namely Participatory
Guarantee System-India (PGS-India), Fertilizer
Quality Control System (FQCS) and Soil Health Card (SHC).
PGS-India
portal:
PGS is a process of certifying organic products in accordance with the
laid down standards and with active participation of stakeholders including
producers/farmers, traders and consumers in the certification system. The
PGS-India portal is a web based application having online facility for (i)
Registration (ii) Approval (iii) Documentation (iv) Record of inspection and (v)
Certification. It can be accessed at the URL www.pgsindia-ncof.gov.in.
The
portal enables small and marginal farmers to have easy access to the organic
certification system. It also promotes transparency in the certification process
and results in creation of a database of (i) Organic producers and (ii) area
under PGS certification with due traceability.
Fertilizer
Quality Control System (FQCS) portal:
The FQCS portal is a web based and configurable workflow application developed
for processing of fertiliser sample collection, testing and generation of
analysis reports. It can be accessed at the URL www.fqcs.dac.gov.in. The
application leads to automation of most of the manual activities involved in
quality control of fertilisers and thus, helps in improving the overall quality
control system.
Soil Health Card (SHC) portal: The SHC portal is a web based
workflow application with following major modules; (i) Soil Samples Registration
(ii) Test Result Entry by Soil Testing Labs (iii) Fertilizer Recommendations
based on STCR and GFR (iv) Soil Health Card generation along with Fertilizer
Recommendation and micronutrient suggestions (v) MIS module for monitoring
progress. It can be accessed at the URL www.soilhealth.dac.gov.in. The
system aims to generate Soil Health Cards automatically based on either
Soil Test-Crop Response (STCR) formulae developed by ICAR or General Fertilizer
Recommendations provided by State Governments. It has sample tracking feature
and provides alerts to farmers about sample registration and generation of Soil
Health Card through SMS and Email. The system envisages building up a single
national database on soil health for future use in research and planning.
The portals are funded under the centrally sponsored scheme National
e-governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGPA), which aims at development and
implementation of ICT enabled projects for ensuring timely access to agriculture
related information for the farmers of the country
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