Lok Sabha Question No. 2223 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-15
Subject: MoU for Post-harvest Mechanism
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Shashi Tharoor

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2223

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 15TH MARCH, 2022

## MOU FOR POST-HARVEST MECHANISM

2223 . .DR. SHASHI THAROOR:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is aware that it has recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding  (MoU)  with  a  private/multi-national  corporation  to  provide  post-harvest management  solutions  to  farmers,  initially  in  100  villages  in  10  districts  across  several States and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether  this  MoU  would  provide  the  company,  access  to  a  master  database containing the personal information, including land records of more than 50 million farmers;
- (c) whether  the  Government  is  taking  specific  data-protection  measures  to  safeguard the privacy of the farmers involved in the scheme;
- (d) if so, the details thereof, if not, the reasons therefor;
- (e) whether the Government is taking specific steps to ensure that this programme will prioritize the interests  of  the  farmers  involved  rather  than  those  of  a  multinational corporation; and
- (f) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

(a) to (f): The  Department  has  constituted  a  high  level  Task  Force,  which  is  in  the process of finalizing 'India Digital Ecosystem of Agriculture (IDEA)' report. Based on this, the  Department  is  in  the  process  of  finalizing  a  framework  for  creating  Agristack  in  the country,  which  will  serve  as  a  foundation  to  build  innovative  agri-focused  solutions leveraging  digital  technologies  to  contribute  effectively  towards  increasing  the  income  of farmers and improve efficiency of the Agriculture sector in the country.

Leading  Technology/Agri-tech/Start-Ups  companies  were  identified  and  invited  to collaborate with the Government of India and develop Proof of Concepts (PoC) based on data of select Districts / Villages. A public call through the Department's website was issued inviting  proposals  for  Memorandum  of Understanding  (MoU). Companies  were  invited  to sign  MoU  on  purely  pro  bono  basis  and  develop  the  PoCs.  These  PoCs  will  help  in understanding  the  uses  of Agristack  and  service  &  solutions  that  can  be  built  using available  data  and  some  of them,  if  found  beneficial  to  the  farmers  will  be  scaled  up  at National level. In this regard, the Government has signed MoU with leading

Technology/Agri-tech Players & Start-ups for working on Proof of Concepts (PoCs) in the select Districts/Villages.

Accordingly,  Government  has  signed  an  MOU  with  Microsoft  India  Pvt.  Ltd.  for consolidating agri ecosystem across the value chain (farm to fork) to empower the farmer using data Analytics. In this regard, 100 villages in 10 districts across several states have been  selected  and  a  pilot  is  being  carried  out  by  Microsoft  and  their  local  partner.  The details of the selected states/District/Villages for the said PoC are given at Annexure .

Access  to  federated  Farmers'  database  will  be  with  Government  only.  No  private company is involved in developing the federated Farmers' database.

As of now, the federated database is being built by taking the publicly available data as existing in the Department and in various data silos in Government.

## List of 100 Villages

|   S No | State Name     | District Name   | Sub District Name   | Village Name       |
|--------|----------------|-----------------|---------------------|--------------------|
|      1 | Andhra Pradesh | Guntur          | Tenali              | Gudivada           |
|      2 | Andhra Pradesh | Guntur          | Tenali              | Katevaram          |
|      3 | Andhra Pradesh | Guntur          | Tenali              | Nelapadu           |
|      4 | Andhra Pradesh | Guntur          | Tenali              | China Ravuru       |
|      5 | Andhra Pradesh | Guntur          | Tenali              | Pedaravuru         |
|      6 | Andhra Pradesh | Guntur          | Chebrolu            | Vadlamudi          |
|      7 | Andhra Pradesh | Guntur          | Tsundur             | Penugudurupadu     |
|      8 | Andhra Pradesh | Guntur          | Tsundur             | Valiveru           |
|      9 | Andhra Pradesh | Guntur          | Tsundur             | Edlapalle          |
|     10 | Andhra Pradesh | Guntur          | Tsundur             | Chinaparimi        |
|     11 | Andhra Pradesh | West Godavari   | Tadepalligudem      | Padala             |
|     12 | Andhra Pradesh | West Godavari   | Unguturu            | Unguturu           |
|     13 | Andhra Pradesh | West Godavari   | Unguturu            | Vellamilli         |
|     14 | Andhra Pradesh | West Godavari   | Unguturu            | Badampudi          |
|     15 | Andhra Pradesh | West Godavari   | Unguturu            | Bommidi            |
|     16 | Andhra Pradesh | West Godavari   | Unguturu            | Kagupadu           |
|     17 | Andhra Pradesh | West Godavari   | Unguturu            | Ravulaparru        |
|     18 | Andhra Pradesh | West Godavari   | Unguturu            | Rachuru            |
|     19 | Andhra Pradesh | West Godavari   | Unguturu            | Dontavaram         |
|     20 | Andhra Pradesh | West Godavari   | Pentapadu           | Jatlapalem         |
|     21 | Gujarat        | Mahesana        | Unjha               | Kamli              |
|     22 | Gujarat        | Mahesana        | Unjha               | Dasaj              |
|     23 | Gujarat        | Mahesana        | Unjha               | Maktupur           |
|     24 | Gujarat        | Mahesana        | Unjha               | Bhankhar           |
|     25 | Gujarat        | Mahesana        | Unjha               | Vanagla            |
|     26 | Gujarat        | Mahesana        | Visnagar            | Tarabh             |
|     27 | Gujarat        | Mahesana        | Visnagar            | Khandosan          |
|     28 | Gujarat        | Mahesana        | Visnagar            | Jetalvasana        |
|     29 | Gujarat        | Mahesana        | Visnagar            | Satusana           |
|     30 | Gujarat        | Mahesana        | Visnagar            | Valam              |
|     31 | Gujarat        | Banas Kantha    | Deesa               | Ranpur Athamno Vas |
|     32 | Gujarat        | Banas Kantha    | Deesa               | Kant               |
|     33 | Gujarat        | Banas Kantha    | Deesa               | Malgadh            |
|     34 | Gujarat        | Banas Kantha    | Deesa               | Vadaval            |
|     35 | Gujarat        | Banas Kantha    | Deesa               | Juna Deesa         |
|     36 | Gujarat        | Banas Kantha    | Deesa               | Bhoyan             |
|     37 | Gujarat        | Banas Kantha    | Deesa               | Rasana Nana        |
|     38 | Gujarat        | Banas Kantha    | Deesa               | Rasana Mota        |
|     39 | Gujarat        | Banas Kantha    | Deesa               | Dhuva              |

Annexure

|   40 | Gujarat        | Banas Kantha   | Deesa            | Vasna (Juna Deesa)   |
|------|----------------|----------------|------------------|----------------------|
|   41 | Haryana        | Kaithal        | Fatehpur Pundri  | Mohna                |
|   42 | Haryana        | Kaithal        | Fatehpur Pundri  | Teontha              |
|   43 | Haryana        | Kaithal        | Fatehpur Pundri  | Munerheri            |
|   44 | Haryana        | Kaithal        | Fatehpur Pundri  | Buchi                |
|   45 | Haryana        | Kaithal        | Fatehpur Pundri  | Rasina               |
|   46 | Haryana        | Kaithal        | Fatehpur Pundri  | Ahmedpur             |
|   47 | Haryana        | Kaithal        | Fatehpur Pundri  | Dosain               |
|   48 | Haryana        | Kaithal        | Dhand St         | Ahun                 |
|   49 | Haryana        | Kaithal        | Dhand St         | Sakra                |
|   50 | Haryana        | Kaithal        | Fatehpur Pundri  | Doliani              |
|   51 | Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara     | Chhindwara       | Rohana Kalan         |
|   52 | Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara     | Chhindwara       | Thuniya Udana        |
|   53 | Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara     | Chhindwara       | Guraiya              |
|   54 | Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara     | Chhindwara Nagar | Thuniya Bhand        |
|   55 | Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara     | Chhindwara Nagar | Imli Kheda           |
|   56 | Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara     | Mohkhed          | Khairwada            |
|   57 | Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara     | Mohkhed          | Shikarpur            |
|   58 | Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara     | Mohkhed          | Jaitpur Khurd        |
|   59 | Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara     | Mohkhed          | Khunajhir Kalan      |
|   60 | Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara     | Mohkhed          | Murmari              |
|   61 | Uttar Pradesh  | Hathras        | Sikandra Rao     | Ikbalpur             |
|   62 | Uttar Pradesh  | Hathras        | Sikandra Rao     | Bhisi Mirzapur       |
|   63 | Uttar Pradesh  | Hathras        | Sikandra Rao     | Dahgawan             |
|   64 | Uttar Pradesh  | Hathras        | Sikandra Rao     | Narai                |
|   65 | Uttar Pradesh  | Hathras        | Sikandra Rao     | Jirauli Kalan        |
|   66 | Uttar Pradesh  | Hathras        | Sikandra Rao     | Amritpur Asadpur     |
|   67 | Uttar Pradesh  | Hathras        | Sikandra Rao     | Jirauli Khurd        |
|   68 | Uttar Pradesh  | Hathras        | Sikandra Rao     | Sidhauli             |
|   69 | Uttar Pradesh  | Hathras        | Sikandra Rao     | Pora                 |
|   70 | Uttar Pradesh  | Hathras        | Sikandra Rao     | Jansoi               |
|   71 | Uttar Pradesh  | Mainpuri       | Mainpuri         | Nawada               |
|   72 | Uttar Pradesh  | Mainpuri       | Mainpuri         | Gadery               |
|   73 | Uttar Pradesh  | Mainpuri       | Mainpuri         | Lahra Mahuan         |
|   74 | Uttar Pradesh  | Mainpuri       | Mainpuri         | Santpur              |
|   75 | Uttar Pradesh  | Mainpuri       | Mainpuri         | Badanpur             |
|   76 | Uttar Pradesh  | Mainpuri       | Mainpuri         | Lalpur Sadhini       |
|   77 | Uttar Pradesh  | Mainpuri       | Mainpuri         | Sathni Dalippur      |
|   78 | Uttar Pradesh  | Mainpuri       | Mainpuri         | Barauli              |
|   79 | Uttar Pradesh  | Mainpuri       | Mainpuri         | Halpura              |
|   80 | Uttar Pradesh  | Mainpuri       | Mainpuri         | Sagauni              |
|   81 | Gujarat        | Amreli         | Amreli           | Amarpur (Varudi)     |
|   82 | Gujarat        | Amreli         | Amreli           | Chakkargadh          |
|   83 | Gujarat        | Amreli         | Amreli           | Gavadka              |
|   84 | Gujarat        | Amreli         | Amreli           | Ishvariya            |

|   85 | Gujarat        | Amreli   | Amreli   | Lalavadar    |
|------|----------------|----------|----------|--------------|
|   86 | Gujarat        | Amreli   | Amreli   | Mangvapal    |
|   87 | Gujarat        | Amreli   | Amreli   | Rangpur      |
|   88 | Gujarat        | Amreli   | Amreli   | Keriyanagas  |
|   89 | Gujarat        | Amreli   | Amreli   | Vadera       |
|   90 | Gujarat        | Amreli   | Amreli   | Varasda      |
|   91 | Madhya Pradesh | Morena   | Bamor    | Karua        |
|   92 | Madhya Pradesh | Morena   | Joura    | Khaneta      |
|   93 | Madhya Pradesh | Morena   | Joura    | Maharajpur   |
|   94 | Madhya Pradesh | Morena   | Joura    | Silaytha     |
|   95 | Madhya Pradesh | Morena   | Morena   | Atarsuma     |
|   96 | Madhya Pradesh | Morena   | Morena   | Chonda       |
|   97 | Madhya Pradesh | Morena   | Morena   | Dompura      |
|   98 | Madhya Pradesh | Morena   | Morena   | Lalaurkalan  |
|   99 | Madhya Pradesh | Morena   | Morena   | Morenagaon   |
|  100 | Madhya Pradesh | Morena   | Morena   | Mudiya Kheda |

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