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Krushi Sahayak: A Smart Agriculture Web Portal for Farmers
Subject area: Science,Engineering and Technology · Area of research: Computer Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I10-1716275
Abstract
Indian agriculture remains the backbone of the national economy, employing approximately 54% of the total workforce and contributing nearly 18% to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite its significance, farmers continue to face critical information gaps: delayed access to government welfare schemes, inability to track real-time commodity prices, and limited awareness of localized weather forecasts. These deficiencies result in suboptimal crop planning, financial losses, and reduced agricultural productivity. This paper presents Krushi Sahayak, a centralized smart agriculture web portal designed to bridge these information gaps. The proposed system integrates a real-time Weather API, live market price feeds, a curated government scheme repository with eligibility filtering, and a push-notification engine within a single, accessible platform. The portal was developed using the Flask micro-framework with a MySQL relational database on the backend, and HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript on the frontend. Usability evaluation with 30 farmers across three districts of Maharashtra demonstrated a System Usability Scale (SUS) score of 79.4, indicating good usability. The portal reduced the average time for a farmer to locate a relevant government scheme from 47 minutes (using existing fragmented sources) to under 3 minutes. These results validate Krushi Sahayak as an effective tool for accelerating digital transformation in agriculture.
Keywords
Smart Agriculture, Web Portal, Farmers, Weather API, Government Schemes, Market Prices, Digital Farming, Flask, MySQL, Usability.
How to cite this paper
@article{1716275,
author = {Prathmesh Dattatray Kadam, Pavan Kadam, Gautam Jogdande},
title = {Krushi Sahayak: A Smart Agriculture Web Portal for Farmers},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2026},
volume = {9},
number = {10},
pages = {1300-1305},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1716275.pdf},
abstract = {Indian agriculture remains the backbone of the national economy, employing approximately 54% of the total workforce and contributing nearly 18% to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite its significance, farmers continue to face critical information gaps: delayed access to government welfare schemes, inability to track real-time commodity prices, and limited awareness of localized weather forecasts. These deficiencies result in suboptimal crop planning, financial losses, and reduced agricultural productivity. This paper presents Krushi Sahayak, a centralized smart agriculture web portal designed to bridge these information gaps. The proposed system integrates a real-time Weather API, live market price feeds, a curated government scheme repository with eligibility filtering, and a push-notification engine within a single, accessible platform. The portal was developed using the Flask micro-framework with a MySQL relational database on the backend, and HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript on the frontend. Usability evaluation with 30 farmers across three districts of Maharashtra demonstrated a System Usability Scale (SUS) score of 79.4, indicating good usability. The portal reduced the average time for a farmer to locate a relevant government scheme from 47 minutes (using existing fragmented sources) to under 3 minutes. These results validate Krushi Sahayak as an effective tool for accelerating digital transformation in agriculture.},
keywords = {Smart Agriculture, Web Portal, Farmers, Weather API, Government Schemes, Market Prices, Digital Farming, Flask, MySQL, Usability.},
month = {April},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I10-1716275}
}