In big push for agriculture digitalisation, govt creates database with 5.5 crore farmers

The unified database will have information about benefits of various central and state government schemes, and can be used to access information for providing benefits to farmers in the future.

The government has created a database of 5.5 crore farmers, with the idea of extending the central schemes to them. Once the record compilation exercise is complete, the government plans to issue a 12-digit unique ID to each farmer.

According to officials in the agriculture ministry, the unified database for all farmers will have information of all benefits and supports of various schemes of central and state governments, and this can be the source for accessing information for providing benefits to farmers in the future.