In an effort to ameliorate farmers’ income and their selling of agro products, Indian Railways has operated nearly 2,359 Kisan Rail services till January 2023. It transported around 7.9 lakh tonnes of perishables from one place to another. The first Kisan Rail was flagged off from Maharashtra’s Devlali to Bihar’s Danapur by then Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and Agricultural Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on August 07, 2020.
