DPI in agriculture, built on PPP mode, combining the innovation of the private sector and the scale of the Government, can make digital agriculture transformative, affordable and encourage start-ups to build businesses on this infrastructure and address farmer’s needs.

TAC is building an ecosystem led, open-source movement for Agri, which in turn will help build the elements of the common digital infrastructure [Digital Rails] for Agri – as a public good, collaboratively between the broader ecosystem and the Government.

Agriculture is one of the least digitised in India and plagued by dozens of siloed software applications and islands of data, providing little benefit. Lack of standardisation, calibration and certification leads to data which is rendered partially ineffective for further processing or is deemed un-trustworthy. Standardisation will help improve “data-trust” furthering adoption of automation through large scale AI models and avoiding real-world biases creeping into AI prediction. Currently there is a vacuum with respect to Agri Data Interoperability for seamless integration and relevance across applications.