Farmers will now be able to hire farm machineries including tractorsNSE -0.84 % at an affordable price through an app based mobile application the way people hire Ola and Uber taxis over mobiles. The government, on Tuesday, launched multilingual app based service - CHC Farm Machinery for Custom Hiring Centres (CHCs). This service, will facilitate local farmers the use of shared resources including tractors and other farm machineries at affordable prices.
“Through CHC farm machinery app, farmers can select and order the required machinery at the rates feasible for them from the Custom Hiring Centers located in the radius of 50 Kms,” he said.
He said that till date more than 40,000 custom hiring service centers have registered on this mobil.
The CHC Farm machinery app is already available to custom service providers for registration and uploading with geo-reference photographs of agricultural machinery custom service centers and photographs of machinery available in it. Through this app, farmers, especially small and marginal farmers, will have easy access to high value and technical agricultural equipments which will facilitate optimum use of all types of inputs using these farming machines. This will not only increase the income o ..
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Source: The Economic Times