Information and services available on mkisan portal i.e. https://mkisan.gov.in are crop specific advisories to farmers through SMS and Voice; Pull SMS service for farmers to register themselves and give feedback on the service; Interactive Voice Response System service and extreme weather alert for farmers. 24,62,37,10,138 SMSs have been sent to the farmers since launch of this portal on 25.05.2013 till 28.06.2019. Advisories to the farmers registered on this portal, can be sent in 12 languages viz., Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English.

STATE WISE REGISTERED FARMERS (as on 28.06.2019)
Sl. No	STATE NAME	FARMER COUNT
1	A AND N ISLANDS	11989
2	ANDHRA PRADESH	5313689
3	ARUNACHAL PRADESH	1257
4	ASSAM	78249
5	BIHAR	1032234
6	CHANDIGARH	640
7	CHHATTISGARH	1527476
8	DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI	1235
9	DAMAN AND DIU	74
10	DELHI	48906
11	GOA	23755
12	GUJARAT	1224048
13	HARYANA	1311885
14	HIMACHAL PRADESH	733962
15	JAMMU AND KASHMIR	256018
16	JHARKAND	810946
17	KARNATAKA	763898
18	KERALA	1050629
19	LAKSHADWEEP	26
20	MADHYA PRADESH	2321973
21	MAHARASHTRA	6369389
22	MANIPUR	4241
23	MEGHALAYA	5042
24	MIZORAM	4541
25	NAGALAND	27657
26	ODISHA	3008725
27	PUDUCHERRY	11202
28	PUNJAB	724908
29	RAJASTHAN	3200755
30	SIKKIM	26244
31	TAMIL NADU	1232068
32	TELANGANA	2782294
34	TRIPURA	40993
35	UTTAR PRADESH	14123357
36	UTTARAKHAND	199109
37	WEST BENGAL	1790872
	TOTAL	50064286

This information was given in a written reply by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in Lok Sabha today.

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