A Digital Agriculture Mission has been initiated for 2021 -2025 by the government for projects based on new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, remote sensing and GIS technology, use of drones and robots
Ministry of Agriculture recently signed an MoU for pilot projects with CISCO, Ninjacart, Jio Platforms, ITC and NCDEX e-Markets (NeML) at Krishi Bhavan. The MoU was signed in the presence of Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. Based on these pilot projects farmers will be able to make informed decisions on what crop to grow, what variety of seed to use and what best practices to adopt to maximise the yield. Farmers can make informed decisions about whether to sell or store their produce and when and where and what price to sell.
A Digital Agriculture Mission has been initiated for 2021 -2025 by the government for projects based on new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, remote sensing and GIS technology, use of drones and robots etc. A federated farmers’ database will be linked by the land records of farmers from across the country and a unique farmer ID will be created. Under this unified database for all farmers, the information of all benefits and supports of various schemes of Central & state government can be kept and this can be the source for accessing information for providing benefits to farmers in the future. So far, the database is ready with details of around 5.5 crore farmers.
Kailash Chaudhary, Union Minister of State for Agriculture, Shobha Karandlaje, Union Minister of State for Agriculture, Sanjay Aggarwal Secretary, DA&FW, Vivek Aggarwal, Additional Secretary (Digital Agriculture), Harish Krishnan, MD, Public Affairs & Strategic Engagements CISCO, Thirukumaran Nagarajan, Co Founder and CEO, Ninjacart Ninjacart, Shanker Adawal, President and Head of Regulatory & Corporate Affiars, JIO Platforms, Rajnikant Rai, Divisional Chief Executive, ITC and Mrugank Paranjape, MD and CEO, NCDEX e-Markets Limited (NeML) were also present on this occasion.
