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19/04/22 19:54 PM IST

Integrated and hi-tech online portals

In News 
  • Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar  lauched two portals, one for the Computerized Registration of pesticide (CROP) and the other for Plant Quarantine Management System (PQMS).
PQMS Portal 
  • The PQMS portal will provide a transparent system with no physical touch points for the applicants and ensure convenience to the users, through online system including e-payments and uploading of documents, online accreditation and renewal of treatment agencies/facilities and downloading of certificates.
CROP portal 
  • The portal will immensely help in ease of doing business and provide greater and timely Crop protection solution to farmers of the country.
Significance 
  • Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (DAFW), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, through the Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine & Storage (DPPQS), Faridabad has been catering to Indian exporters and importers of agriculture commodities and Indian Pesticide Industry, through its two portals namely, Computerized Registration of pesticide (CROP) and Plant Quarantine Information System (PQIS).
  • Realising the need for quicker disposal of applications related to  export/import of agricultural commodities and pesticides registration, a more coordinated integration with external systems and stakeholders, and to bring in greater transparency in the existing online system, DAFW today launched two redeveloped online portals.
  • The new portals will benefit farmers, exporters as well as industrialists.
Source-PIB 

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