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AGMARKNET
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- Agricultural Marketing Information Network (AGMARKNET) was launched in 2000 by the Union Ministry of Agriculture
- The Directorate of Marketing and Inspection (DMI), under the Ministry, links around 7,000 agricultural wholesale markets in India with the State Agricultural Marketing Boards and Directorates for effective information exchange.
- This e-governance portal AGMARKNET, implemented by National Informatics Centre (NIC), facilitates generation and transmission of prices, commodity arrival information from agricultural produce markets, and web-based dissemination to producers, consumers, traders, and policymakers transparently and quickly.
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e-choupal
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- An initiative by ITC provides alternative marketing channel, information on weather, agricultural practices, input sales, etc.
- It is a kiosk located in a village and equipped with computer and internet access, which is managed by trained sanchalak.
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Direct benefit transfer (DBT) Central Agri Portal
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- Launched in 2013, the DBT Agri Portal is a unified central portal for agricultural schemes across the country
- The portal helps farmers adopt modern farm machineries through government subsidies
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National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)
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- The National Agriculture Market scheme (e-NAM) envisages initiation of e-marketing platform at national level and to support creation of infrastructure to enable e-marketing in regulated markets across the country
- This innovative market process is revolutionizing Agricultural markets by ensuring better price discovery, bringing in transparency and competition to enable farmers to get improved remuneration for their produce in moving towards ‘One Nation One Market’
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Kisan Call centre
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- In order to harness the potential of ICT in Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare launched the scheme in 2004
- Main aim of the project is to answer farmers’ queries on a telephone call in their own dialect
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Village Resource Centres
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- Village Resource Centres provide space-based services in the rural areas. They are one of the unique initiatives that use Satellite Communication (SATCOM) network and Earth Observation (EO) satellite data to reach out to the villages to address the needs of the local people in villages themselves.
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Digital Agriculture Mission
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- The Digital Agriculture Mission (2021–2025) aims to support and accelerate projects based on new technologies, like AI, block chain, remote sensing and GIS technology and use of drones and robots
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Unified Farmer Service Platform (UFSP):
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- UFSP is a combination of Core Infrastructure, Data, Applications and Tools that enable seamless interoperability of various public and private IT systems in the agriculture ecosystem across the country. UFSP is envisaged to play the following role:
- Act as a central agency in the agri ecosystem (like UPI in the e Payments)
- Enables Registration of the Service Providers (public and private) and the Farmer Services.
- Enforces various rules and validations required during the service delivery process.
- Acts as a Repository of all the applicable standards, API’s (Application Programming Interface) and formats.
- Act as a medium of data exchange amongst various schemes and services to enable comprehensive delivery of services to the farmer
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AgriStack
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- The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has planned creating ‘AgriStack’ – a collection of technology-based interventions in agriculture.
- It will create a unified platform for farmers to provide them end to end services across the agriculture food value chain
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