Agri Stack to cover six crore farmers by end of the year
Agri Stack – a database of farmers in India with details like their agriculture landholding, GPS coordinates of each plot and crops grown on them – will cover 60 million farmers by the end of this financial year, an agriculture ministry official said.
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A unique farmer identification number, or ID, will be provided to each farmer and the database will have linkages to the government benefits availed by farmers. A Unified Farmer Service Interface (UFSI) will be the application programming interface or the service layer to provide data to others.
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He said 60 million farmer IDs will be given by the end of this financial year. “We already know 100 million farmers who avail the PM Kisan scheme. We have created farmer IDs for them in advance but have not activated them,” he said.
Use cases for the Agri Stack include availing the Kisan credit card in which loans can be acquired in 15 minutes.
Chawla said
