Pariksha SaathiShivraj Singh Chouhan launches upgraded Agri Welfare Portal: one mobile-friendly window to PM-KISAN, AgriStack and PMFBY, with KVK training for farmers
Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan formally launched the upgraded Agri Welfare Portal on 19 October 2026, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare said. The portal is meant to give farmers direct access on their mobile phones to government schemes, financial assistance and agricultural information, without visiting offices or going through intermediaries, and will serve as a single-window gateway to major initiatives including PM-KISAN, AgriStack and the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. It offers online eligibility checks and direct applications, with financial assistance transferred through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), and information on weather, scientific farming practices, the availability of seeds and fertilisers, and market prices. It is built to work on basic smartphones and weak internet connections, supports screen readers, and was developed in line with MeitY's Digital Brand Identity Manual 3.0 and the Guidelines for Indian Government Websites 3.0. It will also bring Farmer Producer Organisations, Primary Agricultural Credit Societies, agricultural scientists, researchers and startups onto a common platform, and a special training campaign through Krishi Vigyan Kendras across the country will help farmers use it. Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Secretary Atish Chandra and officials of the National Informatics Centre were present at the launch.
Drafted with AI assistance from the official PIB release linked above and checked against it by a second AI pass. Not line-edited by a human.
Learning context
The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is a Central Sector Scheme under which Rs 6,000 a year is transferred to farmer families in three four-monthly instalments of Rs 2,000, directly into their bank accounts, subject to exclusion criteria for higher-income groups. It was formally launched by the Prime Minister at Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, on 24 February 2019 and is effective from 1 December 2018. It first covered small and marginal farmer families holding up to 2 hectares of cultivable land and was extended from 1 June 2019 to all farmer families, whatever the size of their holdings; identifying beneficiaries is the responsibility of the State and UT governments.
Reference: PIB release of 22 February 2020, PM-KISAN completes one year
Check yourself: through which institutions will the special training campaign on using the portal be run?
Through Krishi Vigyan Kendras across the country.
Revision task: from this release, note the portal's name, the three initiatives it links, the two MeitY standards it follows and the KVK training campaign, and keep them apart from PM-KISAN's standing facts above.
Test yourself
Which portal did Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launch in upgraded form on 19 October 2026 as a single-window gateway to PM-KISAN, AgriStack and the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana?
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Answer: Agri Welfare Portal
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare said Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan formally launched the upgraded Agri Welfare Portal, which will serve as a single-window gateway to initiatives including PM-KISAN, AgriStack and the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana.
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