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While we all know the progress India has made in terms of Digital Public Infrastructure, with Aadhar, UPI, FASTag etc., becoming omnipresent and India leading the DPI revolution across the world, there are many emerging areas where DPIs are being used and delivering many solutions to unique challenges.

India has been proactive in using digital technologies to deliver the relevant agriculture related services and subsidies to the farmers. In 2005, National Horticulture Mission (NHM) was launched to maximize the horticulture potential of the country. Several schemes, and mandates have been implemented by the government, before culminating into a formal DPI for this sector in 2021, named IDEA – India Digital Ecosystem for Agriculture.

India’s agriculture ecosystem is witnessing a gradual increase in the number of DPIs, with IDEA being the latest addition.

 

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For agriculture ecosystem, digital initiatives & government schemes are creating a huge impact. The DPIs have enabled cash subsidies, subsidies on machinery, agriculture infrastructure support, crop advisory, etc., all of which have made the lives of the farmers much easier.

 

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The adoption of IDEA has already begun with the Unified Farmer Service Platform (UFSP), which aims to create a central database of farmers, lands, and the farm output on each piece of land. Once the farmers are onboarded and are connected to the system, it will solve for each problem faced by the farmers methodically using new platforms, and policy changes. UFSP is a combination of core infrastructure, data, applications, and tools that enable seamless interoperability of various public and private IT systems in the agriculture ecosystem. It maintains a central farmers’ database with unique farmer ID (FID), and keeps a track of benefits availed by a farmer under various govt. schemes.

The aim of IDEA is to utilize the new age tech like AI, IOT, and blockchain to digitize the farmer ecosystem. This will lead to the following opportunity areas –

  1. Farmer empowerment due to receiving the relevant knowledge at the right time.
  2. Unlocking data insights for agriculture advancements.
  3. Fostering innovation in agriculture space.
  4. Increasing transparency of information for all stakeholders.
  5. Integrated fulfilment services for farmers.

As of August 2023, 112 mn farmers were linked to FID, approx. 46.7 mn farmers have had their lands linked, and over 112 mn farmers have availed scheme benefits.

DPI in agriculture will enable the evolution of an efficient, inclusive, and sustainable digital agriculture ecosystem.

 

To know more about DPIs across all sectors, please read our report from the following links - 

Nasscom Community - https://community.nasscom.in/communities/digital-transformation/nasscom-arthur-d-little-indias-digital-public-infrastructure

Nasscom Website - https://nasscom.in/knowledge-center/publications/nasscom-arthur-d-little-indias-digital-public-infrastructure


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Vandhna Babu
Principal Analyst - Research

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