QUESTION 5
GS3
12.5 marks
How can the Digital India programme help farmers to improve farm productivity and income? What steps has the Government taken in this regard?
WRITE IN
9 min
200 words
What the examiner wants
Explain how Digital India can raise farm productivity and income and list government steps.
How + What stepsAnswer exactly what the question asks.
Demand-wise check
- 1Productivity: soil health data, weather and pest advisories, precision farming, drones, remote sensing≈35 words
- 2Income: online markets, price information, DBT, digital credit and insurance claims≈35 words
- 3Steps: Soil Health Card (2015), mKisan, Kisan Suvidha, e-NAM (2016), PM-KISAN DBT, Digital Agriculture Mission and AgriStack (2024)≈35 words
- 4Constraints: connectivity, digital literacy, data privacy, small farmers left out≈35 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Channels for productivityChannels for incomeGovernment stepsConstraintsConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Listing schemes without explaining how they raise productivity
- Ignoring digital divide
Draw this
- Farm cycle (pre-sowing to sale) with a digital tool at each stage
Value addition
- SchemeDigital Agriculture Mission (2024, Rs 2,817 crore) creates AgriStack with farmer IDs and a Krishi Decision Support System.Cabinet decision, 2024
- Schemee-NAM was launched in April 2016 to link APMC mandis on a single online platform.Ministry of Agriculture
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