AgriStack:
The Finance Minister announced the launch of Bharat-VISTAAR, a multilingual AI tool to integrate the AgriStack portals and the ICAR package on agricultural practices with AI systems.
- AgriStack is a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for the farm sector.
- It is an initiative under the Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM).
It comprises three foundational registries or databases in the agriculture sector, all created and maintained by the State Governments or Union Territories. - Under the AgriStack, farmers are given digital identities (Farmer ID) which are linked dynamically to the State’s land records, livestock ownership, crops sown, demographic details, family details, schemes and benefits availed.
- Crop Sown Registry includes details on crops planted by farmers.
- This is recorded through mobile-based Digital Crop Surveys on the ground each season.
- Geo-referenced Village Maps data comprises geographic information of land records linked with their locations (latitudes and longitudes).
