Launch of Rs 2800 crore Digital Agri Mission part of govt’s agenda for first 100 days
- Centre is set to announce big ticket initiatives as part of its first 100-day agenda, which include a Rs 2,800 crore Digital Agriculture Mission.
Highlights:
- Digital Agriculture Mission will pave the way for creation of a nationwide farmers registry, crop sown registry, and georeferencing of village maps.
- A budgetary allocation of Rs 2800 crore has been made for the mission and it will be rolled out over the next two years (till 2025-26).
- Meanwhile, the Agriculture ministry started various pilot projects and activities across several states, which are part of the mission.
- One of the components of the mission is to create a farmers registry, in which every farmer will be given a unique ID.
- In some of the states, generation of farmer unique ID has already begun.
- The unique farmer ID will allow launch of new value-added services and farmers will be able to avail various government schemes including PM-Kisan and Fasal Bima Yojana through this ID.
- It will also enable them to avail financial services like farm loans and insurance.
- The mission also envisages a crop sown registry. This will have a record of crops sown by a farmer on his land. It will help better planning and estimation of crop production.
- Last year, the Centre had asked the States and Union Territories (UTs) to automate/ digitise the process of area enumeration/girdawari of crops at field level by adopting Digital Crop Survey from July 2024.
Prelims Takeaway
- Digital Agriculture Mission
- Digital Crop Survey