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In Phase-I of the project, the ADeX Platform is currently deployed in the Khammam district and will be expanded to the entire State over a period

K Taraka Ramarao, Telangana’s IT and Industries Minister, has launched India’s first Agricultural Data Exchange (ADeX) and Agriculture Data Management Framework (ADMF) in Hyderabad. The ADeX has been developed as a digital public infrastructure (DPI) for the agriculture sector and is a collaboration between the State Government, the World Economic Forum, and the Indian Institute of Science.

Speaking on the occasion, Ramarao said both ADeX and ADMF provide the right platform to ensure fair and efficient usage of agricultural data by the industry and startups and significantly boost the data economy, specifically in the agriculture sector. He said these initiatives help lead the country from the front in using innovation and technology to drive food systems transformation and improve farmers’ incomes.

According to newsonair.com, in Phase-I of the project, the ADeX Platform is currently deployed in the Khammam district and will be expanded to the entire State over a period. The software platform facilitates secure, standards-based data exchange between agricultural data users such as agri application developers and agricultural data providers like Government Agencies, Private Companies, NGOs and Universities.

ADMF has been developed after extensive public and industry consultations on data protection, management, and innovation.

In Phase-I of the project, the ADeX

Agro Universities, India, Institutions, IT

The Government of Telangana and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, have announced the signing of an agreement to jointly create India’s first Agricultural Data Exchange (ADEx). ADEx will be built upon India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX), a pioneer in enabling the use of data for public good. IUDX was also created in IISc in partnership with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and has launched a variety of platforms, tools, and applications that have benefitted urban citizens.

The partnership with the Government of Telangana will bring these same concepts to the agriculture sector, enabling a variety of new services for the farmers ranging from more credit options, better insurance products, improved seed tracking, more targeted farming advisory and so on.

ADEx will be piloted in Telangana with a select set of partners and use-cases by early 2023, followed by a production rollout within the same state during that year. Both public and private sector data will be made available through ADEx and a variety of start-ups and more established companies will be encouraged to build these new farmer services. It is expected that the ADEx will then be made available to other states and broadly deployed across the nation.

Commenting on the agreement, Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary IT, Government of Telangana, said, “Data is the key to enabling new services for our farmers and improving the agriculture sector. With ADEx, we hope to enable a new ecosystem of application developers who will now have access to a best-of-breed data platform to create applications targeted at bringing technology-driven change to the sector. We are thrilled to collaborate with IISc in this endeavor.”

Sharing his views on the partnership, Professor G Rangarajan, Director, IISc, said, “A nation, where the majority of people make their livelihood from agriculture, needs to apply its considerable technical firepower to this sector. With the ADEx initiative, IISc is pleased to be a part of that effort and we have high hopes that this will help the farmers of Telangana and eventually the nation.”

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