Digital Agriculture Mission is India’s comprehensive program to convert its agriculture into a digital mode. It is the establishment of digital public infrastructure (DPI) for furthering agricultural development. The mission is also about the implementation of other activities such as the Digital General Crop Estimation Survey (DGCES) and other digitally driven initiatives that involve the central government, the state governments, and academic institutions in their execution.
Key Elements of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI):
- AgriStack
- Krishi Decision Support System (DSS)
- Soil Profile Maps
These components will deliver digital solutions and services that farmers can access to attain better productivity and sustainability.
AgriStack
AgriStack is a central digital infrastructure farmer-based- driven by three segments:
Farmers’ Registry:
This is a digital identity to the farmers similar Aadhaar. Each Farmer will have a unique-then link to key ones as:
- Land records
- Livestock ownership
- Crops sown
- Demographic and family
- Government schemes and benefits availed
Pilot projects creating the Farmer ID have been lined up for six districts:
- Farrukhabad (Uttar Pradesh)
- Gandhinagar (Gujarat)
- Beed (Maharashtra)
- Yamuna Nagar (Haryana)
- Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab)
- Virudhunagar (Tamil Nadu)
- Crop Sown Registry:
- This registry includes all crops planted by the farmers. It will be created through Digital Crop Surveys which are mobile-based ground surveys conducted each crop season.
Krishi Decision Support System (DSS)
- The ultimate purpose of Krishi DSS is to provide a geospatial framework that integrates remote sensing data on:
- Crops
- Soil
- Weather
- Water resources
The system promises to perform the functions of:
- Crop mapping for detecting patterns in the cultivation of crops.
- Monitoring of droughts and floods.
- Estimation of crop yields using technology-based models which would be useful for settling claims of crop insurance.
Soil Profile Maps
The program will produce Soil Profile Maps which will provide exhaustive soil information of the entire country of India, covering about 142 million hectares of agricultural land, at a scale of 1:10,000
