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US Awasthi: Opening a New Scope to Indian Farmers through Digitization

by Dimple Singh Blogger
Today, mobile phone, a small screen in your hand offers you a number of opportunities to connect the whole world.Therefore, Dr. Awasthifeels that nowadays farmer can learn or do anything using this digital technology.

US Awasthi one of the well-renowned chemical engineers in the world actually requires no extra introduction. With years of experience as the MD or Managing Director of IFFCO (Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited), he has been serving this private cooperative sector of the fertilizer industry in India. https://wtf2.forkcdn.com/www/delivery/lg.php?bannerid=0&campaignid=0&zoneid=4324&loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiatvnews.com%2Fbusiness%2Findia-iffco-md-talks-about-digital-iffco-381301&cb=bf093a2355Recently, along with other IFFCO members, Dr. Awasthi has announced an amazing idea of linking crores of Indian farmers to the society’s digitization by obtaining different initiatives.Even, he also wants farmers to associate with IFFCO not only for purchasing the best fertilizers but also to learn a new advanced technique of farming and obtain other benefits for the entire year as well.

Know about IFFCOBAZAR

In present days, digitization has allowed people to convey innovative farming knowledge to every farmer in every corner of the country. Furthermore, with the aid of their various initiatives, IFFCO is also trying hard to be the one-stop solution for the farmers by fulfilling all the specific requirements of each farmer. For instance, IFFCOBAZAR is slowly growing up as a single destination, where farmers from different parts of the country gather and spend time in sharing their farming knowledge as well as other best practices of farming, apart from selling or purchasing their farming products.

Besides, Dr. Awasthi is also working hard in requesting thousands of farmers from different parts of India to take part in this one enormous cooperative market, IFFCOBAZAR, which is also acting as one of India’s largest digital platform. Actually, Dr. Awasthi wishes to gather these farmers together and thus want to empower them with new advanced technology. All these initiatives have been possible by the country’s present honorable Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and his resourcefulness of Digital India together with the involvement of about 97% Indians. Under this initiative, IFFCO members are registering the phone numbers of the farmers in the IFFCO website by adding each of them as an IDCP member so that they can easily access the digital platform of iffcobazar.in. absolutely in their preferred language. Presently, IFFCO under the supervision of Dr. Awasthi is running their digital platform in about 12 local languages of the country with every information regarding agriculture instantly in the farming land.

What is IFFCO Yuva?

Another program currently started by US Awasthi is IFFCO Yuva with the aim to change India with skilled developmental training in farming and thus he got a very fruitful result. Usually, under this platform, young girls and boys, who want jobs, can take an online test mainly to examine their aptitude. Once qualified, they can join designed theoretical program along with online practical training to obtain a job in the farming industry.


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