Agri Stack to cover six crore farmers by end of the year

Agri Stack – a database of farmers in India with details like their agriculture landholding, GPS coordinates of each plot and crops grown on them – will cover 60 million farmers by the end of this financial year, an agriculture ministry official said.

A unique farmer identification number, or ID, will be provided to each farmer and the database will have linkages to the government benefits availed by farmers. A Unified Farmer Service Interface (UFSI) will be the application programming interface or the service layer to provide data to others.