The Government has recently launched three web portals for the benefit of farmers.

These web portals are:

Participatory Guarantee System-India (PGS-India), Fertilizer Quality Control System (FQCS) and Soil Health Card (SHC).

PGS-India portal: PGS is a process of certifying organic products in accordance with the laid down standards and with active participation of stakeholders including producers/farmers, traders and consumers in the certification system.

The PGS-India portal is a web based application having online facility for (i) Registration (ii) Approval (iii) Documentation (iv) Record of inspection and (v) Certification.

It can be accessed at the URL www.pgsindia-ncof.gov.in.

Fertilizer Quality Control System (FQCS) portal: The FQCS portal is a web based and configurable workflow application developed for processing of fertiliser sample collection, testing and generation of analysis reports.

It can be accessed at the URL www.fqcs.dac.gov.in.

Soil Health Card (SHC) portal: The SHC portal is a web based workflow application with following major modules; (i) Soil Samples Registration (ii) Test Result Entry by Soil Testing Labs (iii) Fertilizer Recommendations based on STCR and GFR (iv) Soil Health Card generation along with Fertilizer Recommendation and micronutrient suggestions (v) MIS module for monitoring progress.

It can be accessed at the URL www.soilhealth.dac.gov.in.

PGS-India and Soil Health Card (SHC) portals are web based applications available in the public domain.

The information on the portals, which is relevant to the farmers, can be accessed by them. Fertilizer Quality Control System (FQCS) portal is for official use by the fertilizer quality control laboratories.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Agriculture Sh. Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundaria in Lok Sabha .