India Digital Ecosystem of Agriculture(IDEA) in finalization
- IDEA would help in laying down the architecture for the Agri-stack that would serve as foundation to build innovative agri-focused solutions leveraging emerging technologies to create a better Ecosystem for Agriculture in India.
- It will help the Government in effective planning towards increasing the income of farmers.
- A Task Force has been constituted and a Concept Paper on IDEA has already been floated for comments from the general public.
AgriStack
- It is a collection of technologies and digital databases proposed by the Central Government focusing on India’s farmers and the agricultural sector.
- These new databases are being built to primarily tackle issues such as poor access to credit and wastage in the agricultural supply chain.
- Each farmer will be provided with a digital ID, which will be linked to their Aadhaar number under the government’s proposed solution.
- Data to be collected by the AgriStack may include personal details, profile of land held, production details, and financial details.
Benefits of proposed “AgriStack”
- NITI Aayog states that diverse problems can be sufficiently addressed by use of digital technology such as:
- Inadequate access to credit and information
- Pest infestation
- Crop wastage
- Poor price discovery, and
- Yield forecasting.
- This is done through market and state based mechanisms that rely on improving four central areas:
- Financing
- Production inputs
- Farming methods
- Supply and distribution