'Loumisingi Paojel' team participates in Digital India Week
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, July 07 2022: A team of College of Agriculture, CAU's mobile-based agro advisory service 'Loumisingi Paojel' participated in the Digital India Week programme held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat from July 4 to 6.According to a statement of CAU information and publicity officer Dr Indira Thounaojam, Agricultural/horticultural expert of 'Loumisingi Paojel' Kenny Thangjam and beneficiary T Sunilkanta of Imphal East along with DIC's state project coordinator Arpan Tongbram and field executive Nongthongbam Guneshwar attended the programme inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

During the programme, the beneficiary Sunilkanta interacted with union minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar and expressed his views regarding the project and how the project is becoming a blessing for the farmers living in the remote comer of the country.

'Loumisingi Paojel' is a project jointly implemented by College of Agriculture, CAU, Imphal and Digital India Corporation, New Delhi with funding from the ministry of electronics and information technology.

College of Agriculture department of horticulture assistant professor Dr Abhinash Moirangthem is the principal investigator of this project.

The project aims at empowering the agriculture, horticulture, fishery and animal husbandry farmers of the state by providing right information at the right time through the mobile-based agro advisory system.

A total of 5855 farmers from different districts of the state have registered under the project.

The registered farmers regularly interact with the respective domain experts through the toll-free number 1800-102-3141 for any information, queries and advisories.

Farmers can call the toll free number for registering under the project and become a part of Digital India, the statement added.

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