Brief Background

Karnataka state implements several schemes for the benefit of farmers. Farmers undertake different Agriculture and Agriculture related activities like growing Agriculture crops Horticulture crops Sericulture Dairy Poultry Fishery etc. Each of these activities requires specialized knowledge and experience. Therefore the state has established specialized and specific department to assist farmers in carrying out farming activities effectively and efficiently. While establishment of exclusive departments brings focused approach for development of each of these activities farmers need to approach different departments for availing any type of assistance and benefits. It is common practice that all the departments seek documents from the farmers for providing benefits under any scheme. To overcome shortcomings in the system there was a need to have farmer database with unique ID to each farmer and all relevant attributes attached to it. A holistic well organised and end-to-end unified farmer database avoids farmers from running pillar to post for availing benefits. Besides it helps the departments in deduplicating and avoiding ghost beneficiaries. DPAR (e Governance) Government of Karnataka through State National Informatics Centre (NIC) has developed a software application called FRUITS (Farmer Registration & Unified Beneficiary InformaTion System FRUITS). The application facilitates registration of farmers/persons who want to avail any benefit from the Government. In addition details of benefits availed get recorded in FRUITS and thus it becomes an inventory of farmers land and benefits extended to them. Farmer Registration & Unified Beneficiary Information System is a unique IT solution for registration of farmers by all farming related departments.

Benefits

FRUITS data is being used by all agriculture related departments for delivering benefits under various schemes like MSP of crops Milk Subsidy including PM Kisan benefits. FRUITS Application is also providing specific Crop Specific Advisory Services to the targeted Farmers along with forecasting the region/area specific diseases of the cattle and alerting the farmers through SMS service with the technical assistance from ICAR-NIVEDI Institution. Besides SMS will also be sent to the farmers having cows through animal husbandry and medical department about the vaccination programmes of the department. A mobile app is also developed for the registered farmers to access information of their land details crop details benefits received from various departments weather report from nearby weather station and three days forecast. Benefits to Farmers One-time registration for lifetime self registration enabled- facilitates updation requests also.Crops grown details as per crop survey.Check the status of NPCI Seeding and Aadhaar Demo authentication.Know the Weather and forecast information specific to farmers Grama Panchayat. Check the status of Direct Benefit Transfer based on Farmer Id and Aadhaar Number & Details of benefits availed. Benefits to Government Functionaries Authentic farmer information.  Elimination of bogus and ghost beneficiaries. Helps in identifying most eligible beneficiaries. Identification of genuine Small and Marginal Farmers. Helps in comprehensive implementation of schemes. Availability of jurisdiction wise weather data and forecast for Government functionaries. Government will have better view of farmer which would help in extending benefits and services to most deserving faremrs in a efficient way.