- During the National Conference on Crop Residue Management for the farmers from the states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh & Delhi, Union Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shri Parshottam Rupala launched a multilingual Mobile App “CHC Farm Machinery” for the farmers on September 9, 2019.
- It was launched to avail the custom hiring services of CHCs located in the radius of 50 Kms.
- This app connects the farmers with Custom Hiring Service Centres in their area. This app can be downloaded on any android phone from Google Play Store.
- This conference was organized in collaboration with ICAR in order to address concerns of farmers and State Governments. The straw burning events in 2018 have reduced by 15% and 41% as compared to that in 2017 and 2016 respectively, as per the report of the High Power Committee Chaired by Dr. Nagesh Singh.
