Every year about 2.00 lakh metric tonnes of agricultural inputs like chemical fertilizers, urea, D.A.P. and N.P.K. etc. are distributed in 158 Cooperative Cane Development Societies and 13 Cooperative Sugar mill Societies of the State. Under the current system, accounts and other records related to the distribution of these agricultural inputs are maintained by Cane Societies and sugar mill Societies manually, due to which there is excess of manpower and paperwork, as well as there is always more risks and possibilities of misappropriation by the godown in-charge. Taking effective steps to solve these problems, Cane Development Department has developed. “Ganna Nivesh App” under module 4 and 5 for the fair and transparent system to distribute agricultural inputs to Cane farmers in Cooperative Cane and Sugar mill Societies.
The “Ganna Nivesh App”was dedicated to the Cane farmers of the State in this training program. This online training program was organized in the auditorium of Cane Commissioner Office, under the chairmanship of Additional Chief Secretary, Sugar Industry and Cane Development Department, Shri Sanjay R. Bhoosreddy. The program was inaugurated by lighting the lamp by the Additional Chief Secretary. A brief lecture was given by the Additional Cane Commissioner (Societies), Dr. V.B. Singh regarding the need and utility of “Ganna Nivesh App”. A presentation was also given on the “Ganna Nivesh App” by the I.T. section of the Department.
During the training progarmme Additional Chief Secretary, Mr. Bhoosreddy, has said in his presidential address, while highlighting the need for “Ganna Nivesh App” that while taking effective steps to solve the problems related to the distribution of agricultural inputs by the Department, it was felt that the work of distribution of agricultural inputs being distributed by Cooperative Cane and Sugar mill Societies should also be done in a transparent manner. With this, on the one hand, the process of distribution of agricultural inputs by cooperative Societies will be transparent; on the other hand, it will be updated in real time. Farmers will be able to get quick information about the transactions of agricultural investments and the possibilities of embezzlement etc. of agricultural investments in the Societies will also be negligible and the trust of farmers on cooperative institutions will also increase.
He said that due to distribution of fertilizers online through the e-ganna nivesh app, the Secretaries and Cane farmers of the Societies will get updated information about the warehouse-wise stock of fertilizers on a daily basis or at a given time, due to which the secretary of the Society can do physical verification of the stock at any time, as a result the possibility of tampering with the stock will be negligible. Due to the online distribution of agricultural inputs through the app, all the informations and data including Nabard cheques deposited by farmers will be ready as and when required on the ERP system. so that timely information can be sent to the District Cooperative Bank for recupment. As a result, the Society will be able to get timely interest subsidy on fertilizer distribution.
During the training programme, feedback conversation was also held with all the Joint/Deputy Cane Commissioners and cane farmers connected from different cane region through video conferencing.
Additional Cane Commissioner (Administration)/Managing Director, Ganna Sangh Sri Pranay Singh, Managing Director, U.P. Sugar Mill Federation, Sri R.k Pandey and Additional Cane Commissioner(Societies) Dr. V.B.Singh also gave training to participants and said that this training will strengthen the cooperative movement in the State. The trust of the farmers will increase on the cooperative societies and the department. This training will bring happiness in the lives of the officers and employees working in the cooperative cane development societies.
At the end of the programme, Deputy Cane Commissioner (Societies), Shri R.D. Dwivedi shows his gratitude and gave vote of thanks to chief guest and congratulates the senior officers of the Headquarters, the technical team and all the officers and employees for organizing the online technical training programme.
