These IDs, created and maintained by the state govts/UTs, will likely be linked to numerous farmer-related information, together with land data, livestock possession, crops sown, and availed advantages.
Serving as farmers’ trusted digital identification, it is going to be a vital characteristic of the nation’s AgriStack, designed as a farmer-centric Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) to streamline providers and scheme supply to cultivators, together with crop mortgage and crop insurance coverage.
Apart from having farmers’IDs (farmers’ registry), the AgriStack may even have geo-referenced village maps and crop sown registry (digital crop survey) as its parts.
Agristack: Kisan Ki Pehchaan
Below the umbrella scheme, Digital Agriculture Mission, the Centre has already deliberate to create digital identities – Kisan Ki Pehchaan – for 11 crore farmers. Apart from six crore of them who will get it by March subsequent 12 months, three crore will get it throughout 2025-26 and remaining two crore throughout 2026-27.
“We have already got related fundamental information of 11 crore farmers who’ve been getting monetary help below the PM-Kisan (earnings help scheme). Pilot tasks have efficiently been performed in six states to check the creation of such IDs and the digital crop survey,” stated an official.
The six states embrace Uttar Pradesh (Farrukhabad), Gujarat (Gandhinagar), Maharashtra (Beed), Haryana (Yamuna Nagar), Punjab (Fatehgarh Sahib), and Tamil Nadu (Virudhnagar). Nineteen states have, in the meantime, signed MoUs with the agriculture ministry for implementation of AgriStack.
Below digital crop survey, crops sown by farmers will likely be recorded by means of mobile-based floor survey in every sowing season. It’ll give a transparent image of acreage and extra genuine yield estimation.
The Digital Basic Crop Estimation Survey (DGCES) will likely be used for scientifically designed crop-cutting experiments to supply exact yield estimates, enhancing agricultural manufacturing accuracy. It’s not solely a prerequisite for making farm-related coverage but additionally necessary for higher catastrophe response, and fast disbursal of mortgage and insurance coverage claims by decreasing paperwork and the necessity for bodily visits.
Digital Crop Survey will likely be accomplished in 400 districts throughout 2024-25 with remaining districts being coated in 2025-26. The Union cupboard on Monday accepted Rs 2,817 crore for implementation of the Digital Agriculture Mission having two foundational pillars: AgriStack and ‘Krishi’ Resolution Assist System (Krishi-DSS).
The Krishi-DSS will combine distant sensing information on crops, soil, climate, and water sources right into a complete geospatial system, offering well timed and dependable info for the agriculture sector. As soon as the whole digital public infrastructure is in place, it’ll assist present tailor-made advisory providers to farmers throughout the nation for crop planning, well being, pest administration, and irrigation.
Krishi – Resolution Assist System
Moreover, the Mission contains ‘Soil Profile Mapping’ that may allow detailed soil profile maps on a 1:10,000 scale for about 142 million hectares of agricultural land. Twenty-nine million hectares of soil profile stock have already been mapped.
All the information will likely be out there on a single platform and displayed on a big-screen dashboard – Krishi Built-in Command and Management Centre (ICCC) – arrange right here within the agriculture ministry at Krishi Bhawan, and may be simply accessed from wherever at any time.
