The AgriStack vision
The Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM), approved by Cabinet on 2 September 2024, is India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for agriculture. It is to farming what UPI is to payments and ABDM is to health — a stack of three federated registries with open APIs that any scheme, fintech, agritech or input-supplier can query.
The three registries
- Farmer Registry — a unique digital Farmer ID per cultivator, linked to Aadhaar, bank account, and verified land record.
- Crop Sown Registry — what is sown, on which plot, in which season, captured through the Digital Crop Survey.
- Geo-referenced village maps — every land parcel digitised, geo-tagged, and reconciled with the state revenue record.
Other components
- Krishi Decision Support System (DSS) — yield forecasting, drought monitoring, pest surveillance powered by remote sensing.
- Soil Profile Mapping — 1:10,000 scale soil mapping under convergence with SHC.
- Digital Crop Survey (DCS) — replaces patwari-led girdawari with mobile-app field surveys by crop enumerators.
Targets & progress
- 11 crore Farmer IDs by 2026-27 (6 cr FY24-25, 3 cr FY25-26, 2 cr FY26-27).
- 9.2 cr Farmer IDs generated by 19 March 2026.
- Digital Crop Survey live in 17 states / 492 districts / 4.21 lakh villages.
- 25.3 cr farm plots mapped Rabi 2024-25.
- MoUs with 19+ states; budget ₹2,817 cr (Centre ₹1,940 cr).
How to get a Farmer ID — step by step
- Visit your state Farmer Registry portal — e.g. upfr.agristack.gov.in (UP), mhfr.agristack.gov.in (MH), apfr.agristack.gov.in (AP), gjfr.agristack.gov.in (GJ).
- Authenticate with Aadhaar OTP; the portal pulls name, DOB, address from the Aadhaar e-KYC payload.
- Link Aadhaar-seeded bank account; this is the account where PM-KISAN, KCC subvention, PMFBY payouts and fertiliser subsidy will flow.
- Link land record — khasra/survey number, RoR/7-12; the system reconciles against the state revenue database and the geo-referenced village map.
- Receive Farmer ID instantly; the ID is embedded in PM-KISAN, KCC, PMFBY, fertiliser-subsidy DBT, e-NAM registration and MSP procurement portal.
- Update crop choice during the seasonal Digital Crop Survey (DCS) window — typically at sowing; the field enumerator geo-tags and photographs each parcel.
Latest changes (2024 — 2026)
- 2 September 2024: Cabinet approved the Digital Agriculture Mission with ₹2,817 crore outlay (Centre ₹1,940 cr); 11 cr Farmer IDs targeted by 2026-27.
- Mid-August 2025: Cumulative Farmer IDs crossed 7 crore; DCS live in 17 states / 492 districts / 4.21 lakh villages; 25.3 cr farm plots mapped in Rabi 2024-25.
- March 2026: Farmers Registry crossed 9.2 crore Farmer IDs (19 March 2026), led by Uttar Pradesh (~2 cr), Maharashtra (~1.32 cr) and Madhya Pradesh (~1.04 cr).
- Budget 2025-26: AgriStack integration mandated across PM-KISAN, KCC, PMFBY, e-NAM, MSP procurement; Soil Health Card linkage confirmed.
- December 2024: Open APIs published for fintechs, agritech startups, input suppliers and FPOs — Farmer ID becomes the rail for value- chain digital services.
- March 2025: Krishi DSS (Decision Support System) launched — yield forecasting, drought-monitoring, pest-surveillance using remote sensing.
Common reasons Farmer ID issuance stalls
- Aadhaar — land-record name mismatch: different spellings between Aadhaar and revenue records block linkage. Remediate at the Tehsildar.
- Land-record not mutated: inherited land not yet mutated cannot be linked; file mutation at the Tehsildar first.
- Aadhaar — bank seeding failure: blocks DBT linkage downstream; remediate at the issuing bank.
- State portal still in pilot: states yet to roll out Farmer Registry leave farmers waiting; check rollout schedule on agristack.gov.in.
- Geo-referenced map gaps: villages with cadastral map issues face mapping delays; field-staff resurveys are scheduled.
- Digital Crop Survey not yet held: crop linkage incomplete until enumerator visit.
Grievance: state Farmer Registry helpdesk → State Agriculture Department → DAM PMU at MoA&FW. agristack.gov.in hosts public FAQ and grievance tab.
Coverage and outlay statistics
Per MoA&FW data, cumulative Farmer IDs reached 9.2 crore by 19 March 2026 against the 11 crore target by 2026-27. The 17 states / 492 districts / 4.21 lakh villages on Digital Crop Survey produced 25.3 crore plot-level records in Rabi 2024-25. Budget allocation is ₹2,817 crore (Centre ₹1,940 crore + State ₹877 crore). MoUs signed with 19+ states. Live progress dashboard on agristack.gov.in.
How Digital Agriculture Mission stacks with other schemes
AgriStack is the substrate. PM-KISAN beneficiary verification, KCC short-term credit at MISS rate, PMFBY enrolment and claim processing, e-NAM single-window registration, fertiliser subsidy DBT and MSP procurement (under PM-AASHA) all converge on the Farmer ID. NMNF, PKVY, NFSM, NMEO-Oilseeds and MIDH use AgriStack data for beneficiary identification. The Krishi DSS supports drought- monitoring decisions feeding PMFBY claims.