Indian farmers will soon have a 24-hour TV channel dedicated to agriculture and related issues, providing the farming community with information related to aspects like weather forecast and seeds.
To be named 'DD Kisan', the government and the Prasar Bharati are working on finalising the plans for launching the channel at the earliest.
‘DD Kisan will come up very soon,’ Information and Broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar told PTI when asked about the plans to launch agriculture based channels. The BJP had before the 2014 General Elections declared that if voted to power, it would ‘explore setting up of regional Kisan TV channels.’
Earlier, Prasar Bharati had been deliberating whether a single agriculture channel would suffice considering the different languages and requirements in various states and regions of the country.
There was a proposal for having a single channel with windows for programming in 11 regional
language channels.