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Last Updated: 16 Oct 2025

Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM)

The Digital Agriculture Mission aims to create a farmer-centric digital ecosystem for data-driven governance, transparency, and innovation in Agri-tech through public–private collaboration.

Quick Facts 

  • Purpose: Build a digital agriculture ecosystem with innovative solutions and timely, reliable crop and farmer information. 
  • Type: Central Sector Scheme except components of Support to states/ UTs (Centrally Sponsored) 
  • Intended beneficiary: Farmers 
  • Tenure: 5 Years (FY 2021-22 to FY 2025-26)

Objective 

  • Build a farmer-focused digital ecosystem to enhance transparency in the government programs. 
  • Aid government in informed decision-making.
  • To promote public and private innovation and partnerships in Agri-tech.

Salient Features

Background:

Infographic outlining AgriStack's three pillars for digital transformation of farmer identity: geo-referenced village maps for spatial data, farmers' registry providing unique digital IDs linked to land records, and crop sown registry enabling real-time agricultural tracking.
  • The National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGPA) began in 2010-11 to provide timely agricultural information using ICT and updated in 2020-21 to adopt digital technologies. 
  • The DAM now supports initiatives like Digital Public Infrastructure, Crop Estimation, and IT projects by governments and institutions.

Programmes and schemes under DAM:

  • Agristack: A digital publicgood like "Aadhar" for efficient farmerservices. Built with Central, State,and UT collaboration in a federated system. Includes three key agriculture registries/databases (refer to the infographic).
  • Krishi Decision Support System:
    • Integrates geospatial and non-geospatial data for satellite, weather, soil, crops, and government schemes.
    • Supports crop mapping, diversification, and insurance claims, aligned with the National Geo-Spatial Policy.
  • Nationwide Soil Resource Mapping project: 
    • Initiate by Soil and Land Use Survey of India (SLUSI), it uses high-resolution satellite and ground data to map village- level soils at a 1:10,000 scale.
    • Creates detailed soil profiles and standardized maps for sustainable agriculture and better land and crop planning.
Pyramid diagram illustrating the Krishi Decision Support System's four-layer data architecture: geospatial and weather/satellite data at top, drought/flood monitoring, groundwater availability data, and crop yield modeling for insurance at the base.
  • Digital General Crop Estimation Survey (DGCES): To Automate the General Crop Estimation Survey (GCES) process, from state-level  planning to field data recording of Crop Cutting Experiments and report generation.
  • IT Initiatives Support: Includes IT Initiative support to Statesand Other Organizations under the Mission, Support for IT-related activities of DA&FW.
  • Support to Mahalanobis National Crop Forecasting Centre (MNCFC): Estimates crop acreage and production under             FASAL  and       assesses horticulture crops.
    • Aids drought monitoring, weather tracking, and geospatial training for states.
    • Technical partner for PMFBY, assisting in area analysis, smart sampling, and yield dispute resolution.
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