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7/26/2019 Digital Agriculture and Food Security: Framework for Integrating Agricultural Knowledge Services with Digital India

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Digital Agriculture and Food Security:

Framework for Integrating Agricultural

Knowledge Services with Digital India

N H Rao


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Outline

Strategic challenges of food security and business environment

for farmer

Agricultural Knowledge System in India

Digital India infrastructure to connect farmers with agricultural

knowledge services

Integrating agricultural knowledge services with digital India

infrastructure

Imlications for olicy and investments


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Strategic challenges of food security: food demand of

rising oulation and middle class

Middle class: households with daily expenditures between $10 and $100 per person in PPP terms

!rimary determinants of increased demand:

"#$%#& from rising oulation

'#$"#& from rising incomes uncertainties in roduct mi( from differences in food

access) references) culture) geograhies) transortation) retail) etc*

+reater emhasis on food ,uality) health and well being

Fig Source: Global Harvest GAP report,

2014


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-ore value can be transferred to farmer with timely knowledge and

technology interventions across all comonents of agricultural valuechain

I./ 0systems and services1 latform can enable delivery of customi2ed

knowledge and interventions in a sustainable way

Fig adapted from Ferroni,

Strategic challenges of food security:creating shared value across the value chainfor inclusive growth


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Strategic challenges of food security:technology, sustainability, climate resilience

3y 4#"#:

four fold increase in land

roductivity

three fold increase in waterroductivity

doubling of energy use

efficiency

si( fold increase in labour

roductivity

While enhancing naturalcapital :

.urrent: 5*6&7e,uired : 8&

Source: Global Harvest GAP report,201! "#A$ vision 20%0! FA&

/echnology 9/F! growth

Only "6& of food demand in

India can be met in 4#8# at

resent /F! growth

Integrate climate change

into agriculture to reduce

risk through 8 ob;ectives:

Increase farm roductivity

Increase adative caacity

to climate change at

multile levels 9adatation

7educe +atural7esources

Sustainable Intensification of griculture !SI" #

process nowledge and systems based

Integration across scales


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Strategic challenges of food security:access and reliability of knowledge services

Fig Source: S So!ta""i, NAAR# $%i!al report o% &'( pro)ect*, Ferro!i $2011*

multile sources of

information

limited access 9?'#&

-a;or sources: inutdealers) aggregators)

credit agencies and

other farmers 9?5@&

!ublic e(tensionsources: 5#&

!ublic e(tension is the main formal) research

based source of authenticated 9eer reviewed

knowledge


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/he knowledge services challenge: data to wisdom

yramid

Key issues:

.onnect eole with information

Bnable conversion of information to knowledge

.onnect eole with other knowledgeable eole

Bncasulate knowledge) to make it easier to transfer

.ustomi2e and Disseminate knowledge

Scale

Digital India ro;ect : can rovide the latform to build an

effective Data to Cisdom yramid at village level


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Digital India Infrastructure to connect farmers

with Agricultural Knowledge Services

OF> connectivity u to 3locklevel in lace by 4#55

33> formed in 4#54 to e(tend

33 connectivity to +!s

94"####: !!! model with /S!s

!ilot studies in 8 States) 4# +!s

94#54 for 3-!s

Status on Oct 4#5": 84## +!

connected= one district fully

digital

/arget: "#### by Dec 4#5"=

4"#### by Dec 4#5@Fig Source:''()

"## to E8###households er +!

Agricultural KnowledgeServices

Education


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Data to Information to Knowledge athways at +!

level9adated from: .onnected farming in India) odafone Foundation) 4#5"

AgriculturalKnowledge services

/ailored agricultural information over mobile hones to thefarming community 9weather) inuts) roduction) ost

harvest

Access to local

markets

!rovide transarency in daily commodity suly chains

through use of mobile registration services and receits

Farmer transactions Integrate farmers into a registered database of dealers)financial institutions) insurance comanies) traders to enable

and track transactions and ayments via mobile money*

Field audit Gse tablets to imrove efficiency for auditors monitoring

,uality) sustainability and certification re,uirements

7eceits services !rovide transarency in daily commodity suly chains

through use of mobile registration services and receits*

Smart hone

enabled services

!rovides a combination of smart hone enabled information

services) with mobile ayments) loans) insurance and

receiting and a virtual marketlace


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+IS : rovides basic framework for data to wisdom

knowledge latform at each +! level

-arkets) !rofits) ulnerability)7isk) contingency lans)

insurance

7esource Inventory

9+eosatial Satial Data 3ase:

land ownershi)climate) soils) rices)resources) socioeconomic) markets) etc*

Gser Interface: visuali2ation

and decision$suort

.ro lan) Ceather advisory) +A!)

Drought risk) traceability)

7eal

time

+eo$

satial

ibrary


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NAAR !eos"atial #ibrary


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Framework for Agricultural Knowledge Services

through Digital India !latform

+eosatial knowledge latform at +!

level for agricultural knowledge

services 9farm level data) +A!

Knowledge delivery on mobileHsmart

hones

Integrate farmer transactions withother services of Digital India at +!:

credit) dealers) traders

/his will enable:

/racking inut transactions and

oerations 9traceability Access to authenticated

knowledge

Imlementation of +A!

ink +A! to insurance) credit)

rocurement transactions

$ustomi%ed

knowledgedelivery to


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Imlications for olicy and action

>ational market for agriculture for web based transactions9aroved

by cabinet

Bnsuring authenticated knowledge $ link with >A7S H KK

/rained ersonnel at +! to interface with farmers investments in

skill building in managing knowledge services at +!

Integration with markets and logistics network

Bventual links with sensor based data from farms

Sensor data ) archival data and other data to rovide base for big data

analytics based knowledge discovery and decisions


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Bventually

3ig data analytics based knowledge generation and transfer can be enabledwith data from 4"#### +!s and other sources

Fig source: *att darr, 201%


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