  Food production is a critical activity in which every nation would like to be
self-sufficient. India is one of the largest producers of food grains in the
world. In India, nearly 70 percent of rural households still depend on
agriculture for their livelihood. Keeping farmers happy is particularly
important in India as farmers form a large vote bank which politicians dare not
disappoint. At the same time, Governments need to balance the interest of
farmers with consumers, intermediaries and society at large. The whole
agriculture sector is highly information-intensive. Even with enormous
collection of data and statistics from different arms of Government, there
continue to be information gaps. In this paper we look at how Tantra Social
Information Management Framework can help analyze the agricultural sector and
transform the same using a holistic approach. Advantage of Tantra Framework
approach is that it looks at societal information as a whole without limiting
it to only the sector at hand. Tantra Framework makes use of concepts from
Zachman Framework to manage aspects of social information through different
perspectives and concepts from Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) to represent
interrelationships between aspects. Further, Tantra Framework interoperates
with models such as Balanced Scorecard, Theory of Change and Theory of
Separations. Finally, we model Indian Agricultural Sector as a business
ecosystem and look at approaches to steer transformation from within.
