Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar launched the “Centralized Farm Machinery Performance Testing Portal”, developed by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare.
This portal will help improve services of farm machinery testing institutions and bringing out transparency in the entire process of testing and evaluation of machines, said the Minister.
Tomar said that there has been significant increase in adoption of agricultural machines which has resulted in the phenomenal expansion of cropped area, cropping diversity and the country’s agricultural production.
Further to promote agricultural mechanization, the Union Agriculture Minister appealed to industry representatives to design farm equipment which can be utilized in cost effective manner by small and marginal farmers.
This portal will facilitate manufacturers in applying, communicating and monitoring the progress of testing of their machines in a seamless manner as it is easily accessible from any location and from any device connected to the Internet.