The Union Cabinet Committee approved the Digital Agriculture Mission with an outlay of Rs. 2817 Crore, including the central share of Rs. 1940 Crore.
- The Digital Agriculture Mission is conceived as an umbrella scheme to support digital agriculture initiatives, such as creating Digital Public Infrastructure, implementing the Digital General Crop Estimation Survey (DGCES), and taking up other IT initiatives by the Central Government, State Governments, and Academic and Research Institutions.
- The three DPIs to be built under the Mission are Agristack, Krishi Decision Support System, and Soil Profile Mapping.
- Besides enabling farmer-centric digital services, these DPIs will make timely and reliable information available for the agriculture sector.
- Under AgriStack, farmers will be given a digital identity (Farmer ID) similar to Aadhaar, which will be a trusted ‘Kisan ki Pehchaan’. This ‘Farmer ID’ will be linked dynamically to the State’s land records, livestock ownership, crops sown, demographic details, family details, schemes and benefits availed etc.
- Crops sown by farmers will be recorded through mobile-based ground surveys i.e. Digital Crop Survey to be conducted in each season.
- AgriStack is a farmer-centric DPI that will enable efficient, easier, and faster services and scheme delivery to farmers.
- It is being built in a federated structure as a collaborative project between the various agencies of the Central and State Governments.
- It consists of three foundational registries or databases in the agriculture sector, i.e., the Farmers’ Registry, Geo-referenced village maps and the Crop Sown Registry, all created and maintained by the State Governments/ Union Territories.
(Updated on 4 September 2024)
