Portal to focus on farm knowledge, research

The portal has also been launched to provide a platform for providing information and advisories to farmers.

“Each of the 645 KVKs has direct interface with at least 1,000 farmers. But the information related to KVKs was not available at one place at the national level and farmers and other stakeholders had difficulty in accessing the information.

 Also there was no national online monitoring system,” Singh said, adding that the new portal would solve all these problems.

The portal (http://kvk.icar.gov.in) was launched by the ministry on Monday. Apart from online monitoring of KVKs, which will include reporting of major events on a regular basis and submission of monthly reports online, the portal will also provide information on different services being provided by them.

Weather and market-related information can also be accessed on the portal, a release said, adding that information on events such as training programmes organised by the KVKs would be available too. 

Farmers and other stakeholders can also pose agriculture related questions on the website which will be answered by experts.