Indian agriculture remains the backbone of the national economy, employing approximately 54% of the total workforce and contributing nearly 18% to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite its significance, farmers continue to face critical information gaps: delayed access to government welfare schemes, inability to track real-time commodity prices, and limited awareness of localized weather forecasts. These deficiencies result in suboptimal crop planning, financial losses, and reduced agricultural productivity. This paper presents Krushi Sahayak, a centralized smart agriculture web portal designed to bridge these information gaps. The proposed system integrates a real-time Weather API, live market price feeds, a curated government scheme repository with eligibility filtering, and a push-notification engine within a single, accessible platform. The portal was developed using the Flask micro-framework with a MySQL relational database on the backend, and HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript on the frontend. Usability evaluation with 30 farmers across three districts of Maharashtra demonstrated a System Usability Scale (SUS) score of 79.4, indicating good usability. The portal reduced the average time for a farmer to locate a relevant government scheme from 47 minutes (using existing fragmented sources) to under 3 minutes. These results validate Krushi Sahayak as an effective tool for accelerating digital transformation in agriculture.
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