Haryana to issue new electronic smart card to farmers

by Haryananewswire (Balbir)

CHANDIGARH, DEC 23

The Haryana Government has decided to introduce a new scheme of issuing electronic smart card to  the  farmers in the state.

          While stating this  here today, an official spokesman said that the card would be made available to each farmer by the market committee concerned. These cards would  have all details, such as the name of farmer, name of his village, age, description of his land and crops grown by the farmer. The card would also have details  of the sale of the agriculture produce of the farmers and payments made to him  for his produce.

          With the issuance of this card, the farmers would not need to keep separate record of his  yields and  income, he added.

          He said that the farmers  would have to show this card  to the official of market committee at the gate of the mandi and the official concerned would insert it into a machine installed there and thereafter a slip containing  the weight of the vehicle, variety and entry would be provided  to the farmer.

This would ensure automatic entry of the farmers in the computer. Thereafter the crop of the farmers would be sold in the market and the farmer would get  the price of the sold crop entered in the computer  at the gate  of the mandi while returning home. The  market committee would keep the record of four-five years of each farmer.  This system would also ensure the record of the total arrivals  of  the farm produce in all the 106 mandis of the state.

          Initially,  the scheme was being  launched from grain market Rohtak and it would be  introduced  in all the mandis of the state  later. The scheme would prove a boon for the farmers of the state, he added.