About the Paat Mitro:
- It is a mobile application developed by the Jute Corporation of India Limited (JCI).
- Purpose: To provide important information about Minimum Support Prices (MSP) and agronomy to jute farmers.
- Features:
- It is available in six languages.
- All the functionalities are made available to the users free of cost.
- In addition to the latest agronomic practices and MSP, Jute Gradation Parameters, Farmer-centric schemes like ‘Jute-ICARE’, weather forecasts, JCI’s Purchase Centres’ locations, and Procurement Policies are also made available in the app.
- Farmers will also be able to track the status of their payments for the raw jute sold to JCI under MSP Operation.
- Latest technology features like Chatbot are included for their queries.
Key Facts about the Jute Corporation of India Limited (JCI):
- It was set up in 1971 as an official agency by the Government of India with the aim to provide minimum support price (MSP) to jute cultivators.
- It is the implementing agency of various projects of the Government of India for the enhancement and betterment of the Jute crop and the lives of Jute growers.
- It is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Textiles.
- It spread in 7 states which are eminent for jute growing in India, including West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh.
- It has been provided with an authorised and paid-up capital of Rs. 5 crore.
- As per the policy decision of the Government, JCI is obliged to buy whatever quantity of jute is offered at support rates by the growers without any quantitative limit.
- The losses incurred by the JCI while implementing policy are to be reimbursed by the Government of India.
