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Agri Stack DPI: Digital Rails transforming the landscape of Indian Agriculture

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23.01.2025

PIB, New Delhi

India’s agriculture sector, a cornerstone of its economy has faced persistent challenges such as inefficiencies, insufficient credit, market access, and limited availability of quality inputs and resources. The introduction of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for agriculture i.e. Agri Stack, under the Digital Agricultural Mission, marks a paradigm shift. Agri Stack through a comprehensive digital ecosystem approach offers scalable, interoperable, and inclusive solutions for farmers while fostering private innovation.

Agri Stack DPI is designed to enhance entire agricultural value chain by improving governance, service delivery, and inclusivity. By leveraging technology, it aims to build a transparent, efficient and sustainable digital agricultural ecosystem.

Key Components of Agri Stack as DPI

Agri Stack is built on the core principles of interoperability, scalability, reusability, and private innovation across the agriculture sector-

  • Digital Identity Systems: The core of Agri Stack includes the Farmer Registry, Geo Reference Village Maps, and Crop sown Registry. The digital identity i.e. Farmer ID (11 digit unique number) is a key to farmers’ demographic data, their land holdings and the seasonal crop data.
  • At present, digital identity is enabled for 1 Crore farmers across the country with a plan to........

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