During the Kharif procurement season starting from October 1, the arthiyas in Haryana would carry out procurement of paddy through both e-system as well as manually as Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan and Chief Minister, Manohar lal would launch the e-procurement portal in Karnal on September 27.
Chief Administrator, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, J Ganesan on Saturday said said that a mobile application would also be launched at the same function which would provide all necessary information to farmers, arthiyas and traders.
He said those arthiyas who were unable to operate computer, their work would be completed by the concerned Secretary, Market Committee. He said that while 31 mandis of the state have already been linked with National Agriculture Market, five more mandis would soon be linked and business of Rs 120 crore has sofar been done, he added.
Ganesan said that at present the work of gate passing would be done manually. At present, farmers and arthiyas need to be made aware of the benefits of e-procurement system. Therefore, hoardings should be displayed in mandis and brouchers should also be printed in Hindi language and circulated among arthiyas, he added.
He said the Board would launch SMS service under which farmers would get information about the procurement. He said that besides mandi system, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department has also been linked with e-procurement and in future HAFED and FCI would also be linked with it. He said that Secretaries have connected about 34,000 arthiyas online in a very short time for which they deserve appreciation.