The Agricultural Ministry has taken several other measures to facilitate the farmers and farming activities at field level during the lockdown period. On Thursday, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched the “Kisan Rath” App.
Kisan Rath App would facilitate Farmers and Traders in identifying right mode of transportation for movement of farm produce ranging from food grain (cereal, coarse cereal, pulses etc), Fruits & Vegetables, oil seeds, spices, fiber crops, flowers, bamboo, log & minor forest produce, coconuts etc.
Railways introduced 65 routes for running 567 Parcel Specials (out of which 503 are time table parcel trains) to supply essential commodities at fast speed. These trains have transported 20,653 tonnes of consignments across the country.