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
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