To educate, engage and empower the farming community, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday distributed e-Kisaan tablets loaded with information on IT-enabled agriculture, education and health.
The tablets, which have been donated by corporate companies, including Infosys, and developed by a team of NRI professionals, are part of the government’s ‘Namma Raitha’ platform. The platform will act as a catalyst to share best practices among farmers and facilitate higher interaction. Minister for Information Technology and Bio-Technology S.R. Patil said the Namma Raitha project also aims at providing information to farmers on education, e-governance, food processing, rainwater harvesting and basic healthcare.
In the first phase, 1,500 farmers from Bagalkot and Vijayapura districts will be given the e-Kisaan tablets. Eleven of them were handed over the gadgets symbolically on Saturday.
A dedicated call centre team has been set up to interact with the farming community.
