agristack for 13 February 2026

AgriStack Latest News

Recently, 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.

About  AgriStack

• AgriStack is a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for the farm sector.
• It is an initiative under the Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM), and was approved by the Union Cabinet in September, 2024.
• The AgriStack comprises three foundational registries or databases in the agriculture sector: 
  • The Farmer Registry, Geo-referenced village maps and the Crop Sown Registry, all created and maintained by the State Governments or Union Territories.
• Farmer Registry
  • 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.
  • Target: The government aims to create digital identities for 11 crore farmers.
  • The Centre has allocated financial support to states to create their respective registries under the Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment
  • Advantage: A farmer would be able to access benefits and services digitally.
  • The Centre aims to complete the Farmer Registry with dynamic Records of Rights (RoR) synchronisation by March 2027. In the North Eastern States, the target was set to March 2028.
• Crop Sown Registry
  • It includes details on crops planted by farmers.
  • This is recorded through mobile-based Digital Crop Surveys on the ground each season.
  • A pilot on the Digital Crop Survey was conducted in 11 states to develop the Crop Sown Registry in 2023-24.
• Geo-referenced Village Maps data
  • It comprises geographic information of land records linked with their locations (latitudes and longitudes).
  • The target is to cover all villages by March 2027.

Source: IE