Farmers of different states across the country can use the Custom Hiring Centers of Agriculture Machinery Mobile App (CHC Agri Machinery) to avail custom hiring services of Farm Machinery Banks (FMBs)/ Custom Hiring Centers and Hi-tech Hubs, established under various schemes of the Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare (DAC&FW), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, State Scheme and by private owners. The App was launched by Shri Parshottam Rupala, Hon’ble MoS for Agriculture in New Delhi on 24th January 2019.
The multilingual App also helps societies, entrepreneurs and progressive farmers, willing to provide their agricultural machineries and equipment on rental basis, increase income by making optimum utilisation of the available agricultural machineries available in CHCs/FMBs/Hi-tech Machinery Hubs. The App has following components: ••Registration of CHC owner and service provider - At the time of registration, the App captures latitude, longitude, location of CHC, photo and address details. A CHC owner can add details of implements available for rent, their specifications and rental details per acre or per hour, photographs of machineries, booking received, booking closure and feedback & rating. ••Farmer module - A farmer can search and make booking through Mobile App and post feedback on a CHC’s performance.
Using the App enables timely availability of farm implements and appropriate machines at competitive hiring charges, promotes increase in crop productivity, facilitates crop residue recycling and helps reduce the cost of cultivation.