Farm workers use mobile apps to avoid being fooled

Workers are charging Rs.4,500 to Rs.5,000 per acre to plant rice paddies. However, some farmers were said to have misled their workers by mistaking their land measurements in order to cut costs.

Karimnagar: Agricultural workers in other states use the latest technology to avoid being fooled by farmers here. Workers are now starting to use mobile applications to measure the exact area of ​​land, as there have been some misconceptions about the extent of land on which paddy plantations take place.

A large number of agricultural workers from different states such as Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Orissa are engaged in paddy plantations in different regions of the state.

Workers are charging Rs.4,500 to Rs.5,000 per acre to plant rice paddies. However, some farmers were said to have misled their workers by mistaking their land measurements in order to cut costs.

If 5.5 to 6 acres of land are available at a particular location, the farmer will say it is only 5 acres. As a result, workers lose what they really deserve. To check for this kind of fraud, they started using mobile measurement apps. A team of 13 workers on Tanakpur Road, Neoria Husainpur, Pilibhit, UP are using distance and area measurement apps.

Speaking to Telangana Today, one of the team members, Golak Mandal, said that only the owner of the land could measure the exact size of the land by eye alone. They had faced multiple instances of incorrect area measurements being told to farmers over the past four years, after which they decided to use a distance and area measurement app to know the exact area of ​​their land. .

The process is pretty straightforward, Mandall says. Once the app was downloaded to my phone, all I had to do was turn it on and circle the land. He said the exact measurements of the land would be displayed on the screen.

Another worker, Ashid Bhairagi, said he left his children and elderly parents in the UP and migrated here. They didn’t want to suffer a loss by being misled by the peasants. They charged him about 4,500 rupees per acre, but he had to pay agents 1,000 rupees to provide work and accommodation.