Context:
Recently, Union Cabinet has approved the Rs 2,817-crore Digital Agriculture Mission.
Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM):
- Aim – Creation of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in the farm sector.
- Ministry – Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
- Objectives –
- Support digital agriculture initiatives.
- Create Digital Public Infrastructure.
- Implement the Digital General Crop Estimation Survey (DGCES).
- Digital General Crop Estimation Survey (DGCES) – A tech-based ecosystem to provide accurate estimates of agricultural production.
- Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for Agriculture – Provides comprehensive and useful data on farmers, including: Authenticated demographic details, Land holdings and Crops sown.
- Includes cultivators and tenant farmers as per State Government policy.
- Stakeholders – Central Government, State Governments and Academic and Research Institutions.
- Funding – Shared between Union and State/UTs.
Components of DAM:
- AgriStack – Collaborative project between Central and State Government agencies to build a farmer-centric DPI
- Consists of 3 foundational registries –
- Farmers’ Registry – Farmers will receive a Digital ID linked to land records, livestock ownership, crops sown, demographic details, family details, schemes, and benefits availed.
- Consists of 3 foundational registries –
- Geo-referenced Village Maps – Links geographic information on land records with physical locations.
- Crop Sown Registry – Records crops sown by farmers through mobile-based ground surveys each season.
- Implementation by – State Governments/Union Territories.
- Krishi Decision Support System (Krishi DSS) – Comprehensive geospatial system unifying remote sensing-based information on crops, soil, weather, water resources, etc.
- Soil Profile Map – Detailed Soil Profile Map on a 1:10,000 scale of about 142 million ha of the country’s agricultural land.
Source: The Indian Express
Previous Year Question
Consider the following statements:
1. In terms of short-term credit delivery to the agriculture sector, District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs) deliver more credit in comparison to Scheduled Commercial Banks and Regional Rural Banks.
2. One of the most important functions of DCCBs is to provide funds to the Primary Agricultural Credit Societies
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2020 Prelims]
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer: (b)
