Rs 2000 to farmers for smart phones soon

The Jharkhand Government is going to provide free mobile phones to around 28 lakh farmers in State with an aim to keep the middle men away and also help farmers to have greater information about the market. Those farmers who are registered with eNAM will get Rs 2000 as cash incentive for purchasing the smart phone.

eNAM (National Agriculture Market) is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing Agricultural Produce Market Committee mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities.

Director, Agriculture, Manjunath Bhajantri, said, “This is for the second time that State Government is going to provide cash incentive of Rs 2000 to farmers for purchasing smart phone. Earlier, the State Government had provided Rs 2000 as cash incentive to around 20,000 farmers for purchasing mobile.” “This time we have targeted to provide the benefits to around 70,000 farmers, however, in due course all the farmers who are registered with eNAM will get the benefits,” added Bhajantri.