Kissan Kerala, the leading citizen centric e-governance project of the Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Kerala bagged National Award “e-India 2009” for the best "ICT enabled agricultural initiative of the year 2009".  The award was jointly constituted and organized by Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS), Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India and National E-Governance Plan.

 KISSAN-Kerala, an integrated, multi-modal agricultural information system, has conceptualized, implemented and coordinated by Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala (IIITM-K) for the Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Kerala.

 Kissan Kerala has selected for its successful integration of various technologies like Television, Internet, Telephone and mobile/SMS for delivering useful agricultural services and information to the farming community across Kerala. This award was selected through dual process of online public voting system and final Jury. This is the only project from Kerala selected for this national award.

 The award was received jointly by sri. R. Ajith Kumar, Chief project Coordinator – KISSAN Kerala (IIITM-K) .Dr. Rathan Khelkar IAS, Director Kerala State IT Mission, Prof. K.R. Srivathsan, PVC, IGNOU and Former Director, IIITM-K were also present during the e-India 2009 Award Gala held on 26^th August 2009 at NOVOTEL International Convention Centre, Hyderabad.

KISSAN is an integrated, multi-modal delivery of agricultural information system providing several dynamic and useful information and advisory services for the farming community. It is one of the leading citizen-centric e-governance projects of the Department of Agriculture.  The dynamic portal based advisory services (www.kissankerala.net) have become a major hit in the state. Kissan Krishideepam, the leading agricultural based television program through Asianet has completed the 299 weekly episodes from the last 6 years. The project has also launched the countries first online video channel in Agriculture in collaboration with  Google YouTube.(www.youtube.com/kissankerala) . The project also offers telephonic and SMS based advisory and information service for the farming community.

During the year 2008, the project bagged the South Asian Manthan Award for its best digital content.