Kisan Rath Mobile App to facilitate transportation of food grains

Agriculture Ministry launched Kisan Rath Mobile App to facilitate transportation of food grains, and the National Informatics Centre develops it. The central government to ensure farmers and traders can find transport for Agriculture and Horticulture produce.

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Key-Points

The Kisan Rath App will greatly facilitate farmers’ FPOs and Cooperatives in the country to find a suitable transport facility to transfer their agriculture produce from the farm gate to markets.

The Government has exempted random selection of test samples, subsequent batch testing after the expiry validity of test reports, updating of CMVR, COP & Type approval applicable to Tractors, Power Tillers, Combine Harvesters and other self-propelled agricultural machinery till 31.12.2020.

Testing of tractors as per revised BIS Standard IS 12207-2019 and Implementation of new technical critical specifications of 51 agricultural machineries has also been deferred till 31.12.2020.

During lockdown period, the Government has agreed to extend the validity of the license of Seed dealers which are expired or going to be expired till 30.09.2020.

The validity of import permissions till September 2020 after consideration of the requirement of seed/planting material of the importing parties.

They extend the validity of all pack-houses, processing units and treatment facilities whose validity is expiring up to 30th June 2020 for a period of one year without a physical inspection of such facility through a simplified procedure to facilitate the export of agriculture products.