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Union Agriculture Ministry announces Rs. 6,000 crore to strengthen Agri Stack under Digital Agriculture Mission

Posted 14 Jun 2025

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Announced during the National Conference on Agri Stack, it includes ₹4,000 crore for developing Farmer Registries, including legal heir systems, and ₹2,000 crore for conducting Digital Crop Surveys.

About Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM)

  • Launched in 2024, to create a robust digital agriculture ecosystem for farmer-centric digital solutions and making available timely and reliable crop-related information
  • Envisages the creation of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for Agriculture such as Agri Stack, Krishi Decision Support System, Comprehensive Soil Fertility & Profile Map, etc. 

About Agri Stack

  • Envisaged as a digital public good like “Aadhar” with a built in a ‘federated architecture’ ensuring collaboration between Central and State Governments/UTs. 

Other Initiatives on Digital Agriculture

  • Krishi Decision Support System (2024): Integrates and standardizes geospatial and non-geospatial data, including satellite, weather, soil, etc. 
  • Nationwide Soil Resource Mapping Project: Initiated by the Soil and Land Use Survey of India (SLUSI), inventorying soils at a village level. 
  • DGCES (Digital General Crop Estimation Survey): Streamline and automate the entire General Crop Estimation Survey (GCES) process

Other Major Highlights of the Conference

  • Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs): With Maharashtra, Kerala, Bihar, and Odisha, and the PSB Alliance with the National Farmers’ Welfare Program Implementation Society (NFWPIS), enabling digital access to credit services.
  • Introduction of Digitally Verifiable Credential (DVC) or Kisan Pehchan Patra:  Integrated with DigiLocker, to generate authenticated credentials for specific land parcels and crops. 
  • Tags :
  • Digital Agriculture Mission
  • AgriStack
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