Last mile delivery implies delivering the latest, need based and improved location specific farm technoloev to the farmers in time and in a manner which is simple and easily understandable by an average farmer, for improving farm productivity and profitability. The fertilizer industry has been making fertilizers inclusive of water soluble and bio-fertilizers available to the farmers across the country and various need based activities are being carried out for transfer of recent advances in farm technology to the farmers and trade personnel. The ultimate objective is to improve farmers' income. Looking to the need, use of ICT and digital platforms are also in place. No doubt, there are many challenges in Indian agriculture but we have to realign our activities to mitigate the challenges. In this paper, various areas of last mile delivery of improved farm technologies are discussed.
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