About this app

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Every Farmer’s trusted friend and insurance guide!

The Farmitra app an agriculture app which is dedicated to empowering farmers with the knowledge that they need through the power of technology. It is one of the most highly used farming app. This app collates a range of services that farmers across India can use to help aid their farming efforts including:

- Weather forecasts & crop advisories information
- Details of market prices across India
- Access to Important and relevant news articles
- Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: Crop insurance: Policy and Claim Information

It also acts as a portal for farmers enrolled with Bajaj Allianz General Insurance under PMFBY to get a single view of their policy and get claim support. Take a look at the detailed features of this app below:

1. Weather Forecast:

Weather is one of the main factors that impacts farming and agricultural activities. This app provides weather updates including possibility of rainfall, temperature variations, humidity levels, wind speed for up to seven days at block level. The app will share:
- Hourly updates of temperature and rainfall for 24 hours
- Next 5 days forecast to plan farming activity

2. Crop Advisory and Crop Doctor:

Farmers are always concerned about the health of their crops. A few important features of this service that will help them in this regard are:
- Automated location or block specific advisory with recommendations in regional languages, personalized at farmer level with respect to sowing date of crop.
- Advisories based on season, weather and soil conditions
- Pest and diseases diagnostic tool for selected crops

3. Market Price:

Market prices are always fluctuating as per the demand and supply of a commodity on specific day. This service will provide the following information to help farmers take key decisions around when and where to sell:
- Direct feed of all Mandis from AgMarkNet
- All India level markets (Local, State & National Level Markets) price for selected commodity
- The digi-mandi tool for spatial visualizations across the country

4. Information:

This service will inform the Farmer about, recent developments in agricultural field, updates on improved practices, Farmer Success stories, Good Agriculture Practices, Government schemes, Agri Insurance & Loan related updates in regional language. This will further enable:
- Real time information from most trusted information services
- State specific articles for encouraging awareness about crop insurance among the farmers

5. Claim Services:

This service will enable Farmer to have one single view of his policy and claims information. This service will enable farmer to:
- View Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana Policy details with Application ID
- Intimate Crop loss Claim along with self-survey option
- Check Claim status and raise any grievances/queries

App Permissions

Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.