Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM)

A Centrally Sponsored Scheme approved by the Union Cabinet on 2 September 2024, with a total outlay of ₹2,817 crore, that builds shared digital infrastructure for agriculture — a Farmer ID linked to Aadhaar and land records, a nationwide digital crop survey, a decision-support system combining satellite and soil data, and a village-level soil mapping project.

An 11-digit digital identity, similar in concept to Aadhaar, linked dynamically to a farmer’s land records, crops sown, livestock and demographic details. It is created through AgriStack’s Farmer Registry and is meant to become the single reference other agriculture schemes verify against, instead of each asking for the same documents separately.

No. Unlike PM-KISAN or PM-AASHA, this mission has no cash benefit of its own — it is digital infrastructure (identity, land data, crop data, advisory systems) that other benefit schemes increasingly build on top of.

Visit your state’s Farmer Registry portal (a state-specific subdomain of agristack.gov.in) or your nearest Common Service Centre. You will need your Aadhaar number, an Aadhaar-linked mobile number for OTP verification, and your land record details, which are matched against your state’s digitised land records.

The Government has targeted 11 crore Farmer IDs by FY2026-27, phased as roughly 6 crore in FY2024-25, 3 crore in FY2025-26 and 2 crore in FY2026-27. More than 10.31 crore had already been created as of early August 2026, ahead of that phased schedule.

The umbrella digital infrastructure at the core of the Mission, made up of three linked registries — the Farmer Registry (issuing Farmer IDs), geo-referenced village maps, and the Digital Crop Survey — all created and maintained by State Governments and Union Territories on a common technical standard.

A mobile-app-based survey that records what is actually sown on a geo-referenced plot, season by season, replacing older manual crop-area estimates. It was rolled out nationwide from Kharif 2025 and covered 648 districts and over 31.3 crore plots during the Rabi 2025-26 season.

Krishi Decision Support System, launched 16 August 2024, is a platform that integrates satellite imagery, weather, soil, groundwater and government-scheme data on one system, meant to support more accurate yield forecasting and region-specific farm advisories, and to inform evidence-based policymaking.

Farmer ID data is collected and stored following the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and is managed by State/UT governments through a federated architecture rather than one central database holding everyone’s records outright.

This depends on your state — several states now ask for a Farmer ID when applying for or renewing PM-KISAN, KCC or crop insurance, and the Government has indicated this will become more widespread over time. Where it isn’t yet mandatory, the usual application process still applies, but getting a Farmer ID now avoids having to complete this step later under time pressure.

₹2,817 crore in total, of which ₹1,940 crore is the Central Government’s share, with the remainder contributed by State Governments as part of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme funding pattern.

Your nearest Common Service Centre can assist with registration directly. For general queries, the Kisan Call Centre toll-free number 1800-180-1551 is available from 6 am to 10 pm every day, in 22 local languages.