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- The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare has signed 5 MOUs with private companies for taking forward Digital Agriculture.
- MOUs aimed at increasing farmers’ income and protecting their produce.
What is Digital Agriculture?
- A Digital agriculture mission has been initiated for 2021 -2025 by the government for projects based on new technologies.
- The new technologies which will be harnessed are AI, block chain, remote sensing and GIS technology, use of drones and robots etc.
- To transform the Agriculture sector, attempts need to imbibe an ecosystem thinking and a digital ecosystem.
- The Agriculture value chain extends from crop selection to crop management and the market.
- It involves public and private players in agricultural inputs and services and also logistics.
- Establishing a digital ecosystem of agriculture needs to take a long-term view of multiple aspects like
- Interoperability,
- Data governance,
- Data quality,
- Data standards,
- Security and privacy, and
- Promoting innovation.
- A significant requirement is adoption of a decentralized, federated architecture.
- This architecture must
- Assure autonomy to the service providers and all other actors and
- Ensure interoperability at the same time.
- This architecture must
Steps to implement the Digital Agriculture
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How will these Pilot Projects Benefit the Farmers?
- Informed Decisions:
- These pilot projects will enable farmers to make informed decisions on various issues like:
- what crop to grow,
- what variety of seed to use and
- what best practises to adopt to maximise the yield.
- These pilot projects will enable farmers to make informed decisions on various issues like:
- Planning of Procurement and Logistics:
- The agriculture supply chain players can plan their procurement and logistics on precise and timely information.
- Fetch Best Prices for Farmers:
- Farmers can take informed decisions about whether to sell or store their produce and when and where and what price to sell.
Conclusion and Way Forward
- The digital revolution is touching every sphere of life and hence it is high time to bring agriculture in its ambit.
- The MoUs to rope in the private sector can help in
- quicker modernisation of Farms,
- easier access to various schemes and
- subject matter knowledge.
- Such practices must be studied in depth via pilot projects and extended to whole India if found successful.
Other Schemes for Farmers National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGPA):
Strengthening/Promoting Agricultural Information System (AGRISNET):
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Source: PIB
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