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AgriStack farmer IDs cross 10.31 crore
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Saturday, 22 August, 2026, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
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More than 10.31 crore Farmer IDs have been created across the country under AgriStack, the farmer-centric Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) aimed at enabling faster, transparent and efficient delivery of agricultural services and government schemes.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, the Farmer Registry under AgriStack provides a comprehensive digital profile of farmers, including details of land records, crops cultivated and assets such as livestock and fisheries. The registry is being integrated with various farmer-centric schemes, services and digital platforms to facilitate faster access to agricultural credit, crop insurance, weather advisories and Minimum Support Price (MSP)-based procurement systems.
As of August 3, 2026, more than 10.31 crore Farmer IDs had been generated nationwide. The Farmer ID is created by synchronising farmers’ details with their digitised land records.
The government said that during Rabi 2025-26, the Digital Crop Survey (DCS) was conducted in 648 districts, covering more than 31.3 crore plots across the country. Manipur has also initiated the DCS process and is participating in the creation of Farmer IDs.
AgriStack comprises three foundational registries associated with agriculture — the Farmer Registry, Geo-Referenced Village Maps and Crop Sown Registry. These registries are created and maintained by respective State Governments and Union Territories.
The Farmer Registry follows a federated architecture, under which ownership of the data remains with the respective States. The Ministry said AgriStack has been developed in accordance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, with safeguards to protect farmers’ privacy.
Farmers’ data is collected only with their consent, while farmers retain control over sharing their information with authorised entities for specific purposes. The platform also incorporates cybersecurity measures aligned with guidelines issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and CERT-In, with farmers’ information maintained in encrypted form to ensure that it can be accessed only by authorised systems.
Meanwhile, technology-based crop yield estimation is being implemented under the YES-TECH initiative of the Crop Insurance Scheme for paddy, wheat and soybean. The initiative includes the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) among the approaches for estimating crop yields.
The government has also developed the Digital General Crop Estimation System (DGCES) to generate accurate and timely crop yield data and improve crop production estimates.
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