New Delhi: As part of an Indian sustainable plan to make digital ecosystems for the agricultural sector, a centralized database, Agri stack, from eight crore farmers will be ready in December by connecting all land details.
This database will produce a unique ID, such as ‘Aadhaar’, for farmers who have land in time.
“The 5.5-crore breeder database has been made.
This will increase to 8 crore farmers in December with the help of the state government.
The database will be available for government and central institutions to take farmer-friendly decisions and apply various schemes,” said Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.
Overcoming the Virtual Conference of the Minister of Agriculture and several main ministers, Tomar underlined the importance of the database for “shipping services targeted” with higher efficiency and time by the way, and said agriculture must be associated with digital technology, scientific research and knowledge to promote ‘digital farming ‘In this country.
The national farmer database is being made by retrieving data.
From the existing schemes like PM-Kisan, land health cards and PM factory insurance schemes.
This will be connected to the base of the state land record database, bringing the 14 farmers ownership of land in the country by compiling data from other ministry databases of agriculture, fertilizers, and public food & distribution.
Considerations at the conference focused on the newly made agri infrastructure fund (AIF), increase footprints of PM-Kisan and Kisan credit cards (KCC), digital agriculture, national mission on oil seed oil and oil palm, and export of agricultural products.
To provide digital encouragement to the agriculture sector, the Ministry of Agriculture in April signed MoU with Microsoft India to start the pilot project.
It has chosen 100 villages in six states – Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh – for projects in digital agriculture, utilizing the use of technology, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) to support various activities .
However, many farmer organizations expressed their serious concern for the creation of such a database, saying the move would endanger the privacy of farmers’ data.