Progressive farmer in north Gujarat uses miss call to operate pump in his farm


Palanpur

Farmer Ramabhai Parmar is famous as progressive farmer in Banaskantha district of north Gujarat. He has adopted another new technology which is in discussion among farmers in north Gujarat.

Ramabhai from Ambaliyal village has installed mobitech technology in his farm which enables him to switch on and switch off the water pump through SMS.

The system is connected through mobile network by using a sim card. When power supply starts, Ramabhai gets SMS on his mobile phone. When he dials miss call to a number of sim card installed in the system attached with the pump, the pump starts working. When he dials again and gives another miss call the pump stops. Int he meantime suppose if there’s some problem or some impurity in pump, it stops on its own.

Ramabhai has installed this system at a cost of Rs. 8,000. He says he doesn’t need to remain present in his farm to operate the pump. This system also protect the pump against sudden loss of power.

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