Aiming to help the agricultural community, KrishiHritu agricultural services is an intiative to update and warn the farmers about the weather in the coming days can help them to stay alert. Messages will be sent out once a week informing the farmers about the weather in upcoming days.
A pan India Central Sector Scheme providing debt financing facility for investment in Agri infrastructure.
100+ videos are available on YouTube educating farmers about various schemes and facilities provided by the government.
The scheme intends to make the farmer sustainable and agriculture a productive and lucrative business. Farmers can use new and modern techniques in farming.
The Krishi UDAN 2.0 will be implemented at 53 airports across the country mainly focusing on Northeast and tribal regions and is likely to benefit farmer, freight forwarders and airlines.
Scheme to provide social security to Small and Marginal Farmers in their old age.
Farmers are encouraged to form clusters or groups. Each cluster or group has 50 farmers willing to take up organic farming. The aim is to form 10,000 clusters over the coming years.
It is a crop insurance scheme to provide the farmers a stable source of income, where multiple stakeholders are integrated on a single platform.
Kharif crops, also known as monsoon crops, are cultivated and harvested in India during the monsoon season, which lasts from June to November depending on the area. Crops are generally harvested from September end to October. Rice, maize, and cotton are some of the major Kharif crops.
Rabi crops or rabi harvest, also known as winter crops, are agricultural crops that are sown in winter and harvested in the spring in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The complimentary of the rabi crop is the kharif crop, which is grown after the rabi and zaid (zaa-id) crops are harvested one after another respectively.
Zaid crops are summer season crops. They grow for a short time period between kharif and rabi crops, mainly from March to June. They require warm dry weather as major growth period and longer day length for flowering. Some summer months and rainy season is required. These crops also mature early.