3 Mar 2025
It will help identify farm boundaries and improve insurance, loans, and subsidy payments.
Using satellite imagery, Google’s new upcoming tool on the agri stack will identify farm boundaries based on usage patterns to know which crops are being grown and where. It will allocate unique IDs to each farm, thus building a digital agricultural stack. The platform will churn out data about each farm, which can be used by agricultural enterprises offering crop loans, insurances, and subsidies.
The base model is ready and Google is encouraging startups and agri enterprises to use the model to build solutions.
The Indian government is also planning to advance the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) initiative covering farmers and their fields for three years and creating digital identities for 11 crore farmers.
The government’s agri stack will capture crop data directly from the field through a mobile interface. It will use georeferenced village maps to conduct digital crop surveys and provide accurate, real-time crop area information.
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