"Kerala establishes institutional body to govern AgriStack farm data"
AgriStack
a Digital Public Infrastructure comprising three foundational agricultural registries for farmer identity, land, and crops
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)
open, interoperable, government-built digital platforms enabling public and private service delivery at scale
India's agriculture sector has long suffered from fragmented, unreliable, and siloed data — a structural problem that undermines subsidy targeting, crop insurance, credit delivery, and disaster relief. The Digital Agriculture Mission, launched by the Union government, was conceived as a transformative response: a comprehensive framework to build interoperable digital infrastructure for the farm sector. It rests on two foundational pillars — AgriStack (the data infrastructure layer) and the Digital General Crop Estimation Survey (DGCES) (the crop-monitoring layer). Together, these aim to create a unified, verifiable, and real-time digital identity for every farmer, their land, and their crops.
AgriStack is a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) — a category of open, interoperable, government-built digital systems designed to serve as shared platforms for public and private service delivery. India's DPI philosophy, exemplified by the India Stack (Aadhaar, UPI, DigiLocker), holds that foundational registries reduce duplication, enable targeted delivery, and crowd-in private innovation. AgriStack applies this logic to agriculture: by creating authoritative, geo-referenced databases of farmers, land parcels, and crops, it aims to become the single source of truth for agricultural administration. The initiative also aligns with the broader National Data Governance Framework Policy, which seeks to standardise how government data is collected, stored, and shared across sectors.
The governance architecture for AgriStack has evolved through a phased Centre-State partnership model. The Union government initially built and managed the core infrastructure, but under the 'State Core Handover Support' programme, operational guidelines issued to States and Union Territories directed them to assume full ownership of AgriStack's operational backbone — including fiduciary, approval, and oversight responsibilities — through formally constituted institutional mechanisms.
AgriStack comprises three foundational registries:
The practical applications are significant. AgriStack data can be used to automate PM-KISAN beneficiary verification, streamline crop insurance claims under PMFBY, enable precision targeting of MSP procurement, and support Kisan Credit Card eligibility checks. …
With reference to the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme, consider the following statements:
1.To implement the scheme, the Central Government provides 100% funding.
2.Under the Scheme, Cadastral Maps are digitised.
3.An initiative has been undertaken to transliterate the Records of Rights from local language to any of the languages recognized by the Constitution of India.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
Consider the following:
1.Aarogya Setu
2.CoWIN
3.DigiLocker
4.DIKSHA
Which of the above are built on top of open-source digital platforms?
In India, markets in agricultural products are regulated under the
With reference to AgriStack, consider the following statements:
1.It is classified as a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) under the Digital Agriculture Mission.
2.It comprises four foundational registries: Farmers' Registry, Geo-Referenced Village Maps, Crop-Sown Registry, and a Soil Health Registry.
3.The 'State Core Handover Support' programme requires states to assume full operational ownership of AgriStack through formally constituted institutional mechanisms.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Consider the following applications of AgriStack data:
1.Automated verification of PM-KISAN beneficiary eligibility
2.Streamlining crop insurance claims under PMFBY
3.Regulating minimum support prices (MSP) for notified crops
4.Enabling Kisan Credit Card eligibility checks
Which of the above are direct downstream applications of AgriStack's foundational registries?
Assertion (A): The State AgriStack Data Governance Committee (SADGC) constituted by Kerala is empowered to approve or reject requests for AgriStack data access from third parties.
Reason (R): AgriStack, as a Digital Public Infrastructure, mandates that all data within it must be freely accessible to any registered entity without restriction.
Which of the following is correct?
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