23 practical guides on Money & schemes, written for Indian farmers and home growers.
Five different capabilities are sold under the word AI, and they have wildly different reliability. Photo disease diagnosis scores above 95% in the lab and commonly 70-80% on real field photos. Judge each feature separately.
The word free is doing four different jobs in this market. Government apps are permanently free and almost nobody recommends them, because there is no commission on a free app.
Most of what blocks a woman farmer is not farming — it is a record. Schemes, credit and insurance are issued against land in your name, and that is the gap worth closing. Here is exactly how.
Not predictions — four shifts that have already started and will decide how you farm in 2027: digital farm records, the fight over your data, a fertiliser policy turn, and sensing cheap enough for two acres.
The Farmer ID links your identity to your land and to whatever crop the survey says you sowed. That record — not what you tell an official — is what schemes will be assessed against. Here is how to register, and how to check it is right.
Your cropping history is worth money to somebody. Here is what farming apps actually collect, what you should refuse outright, and what India's data protection law lets you demand.
Official mandi prices are free and public, published daily from APMC markets across India. Most farmers either never look, or look at the wrong number. Here is where the data comes from, how to read min, max and modal price, and why the highest figure is usually a trap.
PM-KISAN puts direct income support into the bank accounts of landholding farmer families across India, three installments a year. Here's exactly who qualifies, how the money reaches you, and what to check if a payment doesn't arrive.
Ask most farmers what last season cost them per acre and you get an estimate, not a number. The money was real; the record was not. Here are the six categories that capture almost all of it, the costs farmers routinely leave out, and the one hidden interest charge that never appears as interest.
A tractor sits idle for most of the year while the loan instalment does not. Custom hiring turns it into income — but only if your rate covers what an hour actually costs you. Most owners quote from what the neighbour charges, and quietly subsidise every job.
Gujarat's iKhedut portal carries subsidies for tractors, drip irrigation, godowns, tar fencing and well over a hundred other schemes. Most rejections are avoidable paperwork mistakes. Here is the full 2026 process, the documents that actually matter, and how to check your status.
PM-KISAN has been extended to 2030-31 with a ₹3.15 lakh crore outlay. But every cycle, lakhs of farmers find the money has not arrived. Almost always it is one of four fixable problems. Here is how to check your status and fix each one.
Groundnut MSP for 2026-27 is ₹7,517 a quintal and long-staple cotton ₹8,667. Very few farmers actually receive those numbers. This guide explains the gap between the announced MSP and your gate price — and the four levers that close it.
From photo-based disease diagnosis to AI chatbots and agri bazar marketplaces, farming apps have come a long way. We compare Khetiyaar, Plantix, AgroStar, DeHaat, Kisan Suvidha and BharatAgri — honestly, feature by feature.
Onion prices swing harder than almost any other crop in Indian markets — good curing and storage is often worth more to your final income than the harvest itself.
One small farmer negotiating alone rarely gets a good price. A group of farmers registered as an FPO can buy inputs in bulk, share machinery, and sell with real bargaining power. Here's what an FPO actually is and how one gets formed.
Diesel pumps are expensive to run and getting more expensive every season. PM-KUSUM subsidizes solar irrigation in three different ways depending on your situation — here's which component applies to you and how to apply.
Selling only to the nearest mandi means selling to whoever shows up that day. e-NAM opens your produce up to buyers across a much wider network — here's what it actually is, how to use it, and where it still falls short.
A Kisan Credit Card gives you a ready line of credit for the season instead of scrambling for cash at sowing time. Here's who qualifies, what documents you actually need, and how the interest subsidy for on-time repayment works.
A hailstorm, a failed monsoon, or a pest outbreak can wipe out a season's income overnight. PMFBY exists to cushion exactly that risk — here's what it actually covers, how enrollment works, and the exact steps to file a claim after damage.
Income support, cheap credit, crop insurance, free soil testing and irrigation subsidies — real value that often goes unused simply for lack of awareness.
Many farmers know their yield but not their profit — a costly blind spot. Track costs, find your break-even price, and farming becomes a business.
The difference between a good year and a poor one is often not how much you grow, but the price you get. Selling smarter adds more than any input.
