{"id":141614,"date":"2021-10-18T19:30:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=141614"},"modified":"2021-10-22T17:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T11:35:21","slug":"digitisation-of-farm-data-needs-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/digitisation-of-farm-data-needs-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitisation of farm data needs awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Synopsis<\/strong>: Digitisation of data relating to farmers, and how private participation can strengthen agriculture.<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Government recently roped in corporate houses on a pro-bono (free of charge) basis in select areas for one year for digitisation of data related to Indian agriculture. These would be scaled up if found useful.<\/p>\n

A ‘Digital Agricultural Mission<\/strong>‘ has also been launched for the period 2021-25 to promote the use of novel technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain (hack-proof) data upkeep, remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), drones, and robots.<\/p>\n

What it aims to achieve?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The objective is to enable stakeholders in the farm sector value chain, from production to consumption, to take informed decisions about their professional and business matters.<\/p>\n

This database is proposed to be integrated with the land records of farmers to create a national data resource.<\/p>\n

What are its benefit to farmers?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Farmers would get digital access to timely, situation-specific, and problem-solving know-how. They would also receive tips on what crops and their varieties to grow, and when and where to sell their produce to realise the best prices.<\/p>\n

A unique identity for each farmer (Farmer ID) would be created for better targeting of cash benefits and other kinds of support and services provided by the Centre and state governments.<\/p>\n

What is the current status of agri-digitization?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The agriculture-related data of about 55 million farmers has already been digitised. This number is expected to be 100 million by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

How can the private sector help in agri-productivity?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jio provides soil tests and water availability-based advisories to cultivators and facilitate their direct interaction with farm scientists.<\/p>\n

ITC has proposed to provide customised digital \u201csite-specific crop advisory service\u201d and also handhold farmers to enable them carrying out the suggestions on their farms.<\/p>\n

CISCO has already created digital agricultural infrastructure and has linked it with other information technology and artificial intelligence tools for knowledge-sharing on improved farm practices.<\/p>\n

NCDEX is planning to disseminate information relating to crop arrivals, price trends, and locations of warehouses.<\/p>\n

What are some of the apprehensions associated with private sector participation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The access of private companies to the entire data, including private information, related to individual cultivators impinges on the right to privacy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There are chances of misrepresentation of land records, most of which are in bad shape at present.<\/p>\n

The potential corporatisation of agriculture might subjugate the interests of actual land tillers.<\/p>\n

What steps has the government taken to allay these apprehensions?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A specific policy is being drafted to regulate collecting, preserving, and protecting agricultural data.<\/p>\n

The government assured that the private data of farmers, though readily accessible to them for their own use, would not be shared with any organisation.<\/p>\n

Way forward:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

It would be advisable for the agriculture ministry to allay their fears concerning the digitisation of farm data. A well-organised awareness campaign is perhaps the need of the hour.<\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article \u201cDigitisation of farm data needs awareness<\/strong>\u201d published in “Business Standard<\/strong>” on 18th October 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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