Organization : Department of Agriculture & Cooperation and Farmers Welfare
Service Name : Pull SMS Service For Farmers
Website : http://www.mkisan.gov.in/
Pull SMS
** As per TRAI data of May, 2014, though there are about 38 crore mobile telephone connections in rural areas, internet penetration in the countryside is still abysmally low (in single digit percentage).
Related : mKisan USSD Application : www.statusin.in/20428.html
** Pull SMS is used by farmers and various stakeholders to extract information from databases by sending SMS in a particular format to any of the following two numbers.
51969 or 7738299899
** Pull SMS Service has been currently made available in English script only as all phones have English keyboards. Response will nevertheless be in the language of the State. Gradually all regional languages will be enabled for pull requests also.
** In case of 7738299899, Pull SMS will be charged as per the rental or special-pack plan of the subscriber. Users will be charged as per the following table (rates applicable as on date) for the messages sent to 51969.
Mobile Application :
All applications and services listed in other sections of m-Kisan Portal are accessible on any kind of mobile phone including basic feature phone. Even today, feature phones (as against smart phones) constitute maximum share of mobile phone in India.
However, with increasing penetration of smart phones in India and affordable prices (likely to go down further with the introduction of Android One by Google), it has been considered necessary to create mobile Apps.
Android Operating System has the largest share among the smart phones in India. Therefore, initially Apps are being developed for Android and gradually other operating system such as Windows and iOS will also be worked upon.
The Apps are not only useful for remote location data entry where desktop PCs are not available, but would also be available to farmers and all other stakeholders for extracting information from the web.
Push SMS :
Although there are about 38 crore mobile telephone connections in rural areas, however internet penetration in the countryside is still very low. Mobile messaging is still the most effective tool so far having pervasive outreach to nearly nine crore farm families.
Structure And Codes:
| Sl. | Purpose | Command |
| 1 | Help | KISAAN HELP |
| 2 | Unsubscribe from mKisan Portal | KISAAN STOP |
| 3 | Registration | KISAAN REG (Your Name),(first four characters of State),(first four characters of District),(first four characters of block) |
| 4 | Feedback | KISAAN FEED (first three letters of state) (first three letters of district) (feedback content) |
| 5 | Buyer Registration | KISAAN BREG (first four characters of Commodity) (price) (dd/mm/yyyy), (first four characters of second commodity) (price) (dd/mm/yyyy) |
| 6 | Mandi Price | KISAAN MANDI (first three letters of state),(first four characters of District),(first four characters of Mandi),(first four characters of commodity) |
| 7 | KCC Advisory Rating | KISAAN KCCFEED < 1 to 5 Rating > |
| 8 | SMS Advisory Rating | KISAAN SMSFEED < Message ID > < 1 to 5 Rating > |
| 9 | USSD Registration | KISAAN USSD Yes |
| 10 | ATMA training feedback | KISAAN ATMA <TRAINING_ID>,<FEEDBACK_NUMBER_VALUE> |
| 11 | Verify Dealer/ Manufacturer/ Importer OTP | KISAAN FQCS <OTP> |