To be certain that the farmers get quick access to advantages distributed underneath varied authorities schemes, the Karnataka authorities has launched software program for Aadhar-based, single-window registration for the schemes. The state departments of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, income, meals, civil provides and fisheries departments of the state authorities are coated underneath the initiative.
The Farmer Registration & Unified Beneficiary Information System or FRUITS software program, facilitates single registration utilizing an Aadhar card and Karnataka’s Bhoomi digitised land report system for authenticating possession.
Through the creation of single digital identification by means of FRUITS, farmers can entry advantages of hosts of schemes resembling Direct Benefit Transfer underneath PM Kisan, fee for Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for crops, particular monetary help, caste certificates authentication and ration playing cards.
“The software allows various departments to access information about the farmers under a single platform, which ensures better targeting and effectiveness in the implementation of the schemes,” Shakeel Ahmed, joint director — Horticulture, Karnataka instructed FE.
Using FRUITS information, the Karnataka authorities captures soil well being and crop situation information utilizing a GIS-based cell app for 3 crop seasons– summer season, Kharif and Rabi. This information is generated by means of native youth who’re skilled in utilizing cell functions for greater than 2.1 crore agricultural plots within the state.
This helps in assessing sturdy evaluation of the manufacturing of assorted crops together with paddy, ragi, jowar, tur, Bengal gram, floor nut and copra and helps in crop survey for settlements underneath the crop insurance coverage scheme.
The horticulture division of Karnataka began to make use of the software program in 2017-18.
Currently, all the opposite departments have adopted the utilization of this software program for reducing down a number of registration necessities for farmers for varied schemes and helped higher concentrating on. Officials mentioned that a number of states have proven curiosity in replicating the FRUITS initiative.
Initially, the crop survey began in Kharif in 2017 on pilot utilizing authorities officers however due to the workers crunch, Ahmed mentioned since 2018 native skilled youths are skilled to seize GIS-based information.
“FRUITS is electronically integrated with crops survey and fetches crop details of land belonging to each farmer and provides it to scheme to implement departments,” Ahmed mentioned.
The software program was additionally built-in with Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre, from which every day climate and rainfall information had been offered to farmers primarily based on their places.
More than 7.8 million farmers have been registered with FRUITS software program out of this greater than 6.2 million farmers have registered their land data.
Several landless dairy farmers are additionally registered with the frequent digital platform for availing advantages, particularly `4 per litre of subsidy given to farmers for milk procured by Karnataka Milk Federation.
The software program was developed by National Informatic Centre, Karnataka unit whereas the crop survey software has been developed by Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation.
Sources mentioned that the expertise of the software program in streamlining varied schemes rolled out for farmers in Karnataka will likely be introduced at a conclave of Chief Secretaries to be held throughout June 16-17 in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the conclave which can give attention to key problems with city governance, training and agriculture.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”