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“Krisaker Janala” (farmer’s avenue), an application of information technology, is bringing revolutionary changes in agriculture, ending farmers miseries by teaching them about farming and fostering rural economy through bolstering production to develop “Digital Bangladesh” as envisioned by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The application, short-form apps, helped Muktagacha’s farmer Riazul Karim Farhad of Mymensingh to be a successful peasant changing his fate by facilitating bumper production.
Karim told BSS that Krisaker Janala, an e-service among 657 ones under the country’s biggest online platform Bangladesh National Information Portal, plays an important role in solving agriculture related problems.
He said he received training in agriculture and acquired knowledge about modern technology from the agriculture department. Later, he started farming leveraging the modern tech, he added.
He said, “He had to face multifarious problems related to crops disease at first. He had to go to long distant agriculture office in Muktagachha town from his home to take advice which was time-consuming and costly”.
But, now he finds answers to multiple agriculture-related problems by using the apps on mobile phones.
Referring to the vital role of the Union Agriculture Information Advice Centre, he said he developed a mixed agro farm by acquiring knowledge of modern information technology.
He produces vegetables along with cereal crops simultaneously on the same land. He also produces different foreign fruits including dragon, strawberry alongside native fruits such as mango, jackfruit and litchi which facilitates a big chunk of his annual income as well.
The demand of his crop production has increased as he yielded totally chemical-free vegetables and fruits by using organic fertilizers and concerted disease control methods. He also advertises his products online.
So, buyers from his district and beyond come to him to purchase products at fair prices.
‘The production and marketing process has been easy on one hand and better income is also being achieved on the other,’ Karim said.
Momtaz Begum, a farmer of Gobindabari in Muktagachha, is among many female peasants who are taking part in farming in most of the villages including vast char (riverbeds) areas of Brahmaputra River in the district with their male counterparts.
The country’s largest web portal National Information Portal was introduced at the initiative of a2i to ensure services provided by government offices and the right to information for people.
