Farmer Analysis Package

Introduction

Minimum Support Price (MSP) has great relevance in Agricultural Price Policy of India. The most important factor considered by the CACP in making its recommendations on MSP for different crops is the cost of cultivation / production for which the database is provided by the Cost Study Section Economics, Statistics & Evaluation Division, Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. In this Regard, Cost of Cultivation scheme is implemented to evaluate the expenditure incurred by the cultivators on various inputs for the crops under study ,using the present AgriFarmap Application.

Objectives of AgriFarmap

The objectives of AGRIFARMAP project are:

1. To facilitate data entry at tehsil / village level, making the process of data collection, validation and compilation efficient through ICT enabled Web based System
2. To facilitate processing of data and generation of query based report at central level.
3. To monitor the functioning of Field-Investigators, Field Supervisors and Field Officers at different levels through workflow based system
4. To scrutinize and validate the data entered by Field-Investigators at the level of Field Supervisors and Field Officers through the envisaged workflow based system.
5. To reduce the time lag in reporting of data.