Lok Sabha Question No. 4256 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-19
Subject: AgriStack Digital Platform in Rajasthan
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Rahul Kaswan

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4256

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 19 TH  AUGUST, 2025

## AGRISTACK DIGITAL PLATFORM IN RAJASTHAN

4256. SHRI RAHUL KASWAN:

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

- (a) whether the Government plans to expand its AgriStack Digital Platform to Rajasthan districts such as Churu, linking farmers with real-time data, advisory, seed and input supplies;
- (b) if so, the list of pilot districts and partners (e.g. Jio, Cisco, ITC, Ninjakart) involved;
- (c) whether the platform includes provisions to ensure data privacy, farmer consent and State-level collaboration;
- (d) whether any training or infrastructure support has been provided to farmers to use the platform;
- (e) whether any real-time benefits  like  price  insights,  procurement  links,  or  input  alerts have been reported; and
- (f) if so, the impact and rollout plan for 2025-26?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ͪष एवं ͩकसान कãयाण राÏय मंğी (SHRI RAMNATH THAKUR)

- (a) to (f): The Government has approved the Digital Agriculture Mission in September 2024.  The  Mission  envisages  the  creation  of  a  Digital  Public  Infrastructure  (DPI)  for Agriculture,  such  as  AgriStack,  Krishi  Decision  Support  System,  and  a  comprehensive Soil Fertility & Profile Map to enable a robust digital agriculture ecosystem in the country which  drives  innovative  farmer-centric  digital  solutions  and  makes  reliable  crop-related information  available  to  all  farmers  in  real  time.  The  AgriStack  DPI  consists  of  three foundational  registries  or  databases  associated  with  the  agriculture  sector,  i.e.,  GeoReferenced Village Maps, Crop Sown Registry and the Farmers Registry, all created and maintained by the State Governments/ Union Territories. At present, a Memorandum of Understanding  (MoU)  has  been  signed  with  30  States/UTs  for  the  creation  and

implementation  of  the  Digital  Public  Infrastructure,  including  the  State  of  Rajasthan.  At present, no private entities have been involved in the development of AgriStack.

Farmer Registry provides comprehensive and useful data on farmers' demographic details, land  holdings, and  crops  sown,  enabling  farmers  to  digitally  identify  and authenticate  themselves  for  accessing  benefits  and  services  such  as  credit,  insurance, procurement, etc. It also enables states to design solutions that open access for farmers to the digital economy, such as the Purchase and sale of Inputs and produce online in a trustful  manner.  The  Crop  Sown  Registry  enabled  by  the  Digital  Crop  Survey  (DCS) System provides accurate, real-time crop area information for every agricultural plot.

As  of  14.08.2025,  a  total  of  78,37,621  Farmer  IDs  have  been  generated  in  the state of Rajasthan, with 2,67,353 farmers enrolled for Farmer ID Registration. Likewise, the Digital Crop Survey has been undertaken in 33 Districts of Rajasthan in Rabi 2024-25 in more than 4.5 Crore plots, including 4,77,670 plots in the Churu District.

The ownership of the data in Farmer Registry lies with the respective States. Apart from this, the Government of India also ensures strong data security in AgriStack, which is fully compliant with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and various other cybersecurity  guidelines  of  the  Ministry  of  Electronics  and  Information  Technology (MeitY), Unique Identification Authority of India, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). AgriStack keeps farmer information encrypted so that only designated systems can read it. Secure Application Programming Interface (APIs) and token-based authentication govern all  data exchange, ensuring controlled access to data. Moreover, the government conducts regular security audits of all the IT systems to protect the data stored in these IT systems. Further, the farmer's data from Agristack can only be shared with the explicit consent of the concerned farmer via the consent manager framework in AgriStack.

The government provides administrative and technical support to all the States for the implementation of AgriStack, to facilitate farmers in generating their Farmer IDs and conducting digital Crop Survey, such as:.

- i. Providing training to the State officials.
- ii. Software for Farmer ID and Digital Crop Survey.
- iii. Support for hiring human resources for creating a Project Monitoring Unit.
- iv. Providing Cloud Infrastructure for implementing the project.
- v. The  Department  of  Expenditure  (DoE),  Ministry  of  Finance,  has  announced  a Scheme for Special Central Assistance (SCA) to States for Capital Investment during 2025-26 with a total allocation of Rupees 6000 Crores.
- vi. Further,  the  Government  has  advised  the  States  to  adopt  a  Camp-mode approach, under which financial  assistance  of Rs.  15,000 per camp  has been provisioned to the States to encourage States to organize field-level camps and mobilise local administration.
- vii. To  accelerate  the  creation  and  verification  of  Farmers'  Registry,  Rs.  10/-  per Farmer ID has been provisioned from the administrative fund of the PM KISAN Scheme.  This  amount  will  be  utilized  to  provide  an  honorarium  to  the  field functionaries involved in the creation of the Farmers' Registry.

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