The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Edappadi K.Palaniswami launched ‘Uzhavan’, a mobile app for farmers, which would provide complete real-time information about agricultural operations and offer nine services, including details on crop insurance. Moreover. the farmers could get weather updates for the next four days and price information about agricultural inputs.
The app which is available on Google Play Store, would provide information on subsidies available for schemes under various categories — seeds, machinery, solar pump set, shade net, poly house, pack house, hi-tech nursery, small nursery, new tissue culture lab, anti-bird net, plastic mulching, beehives, pre-cooling chamber, reefer van, mobile vendor cart, low-cost onion storage and mushroom cultivation.
