Centre forms panel to create standardised database of farmers

In purchase to create a in depth centralised database to properly offer intervention for farmer welfare and guidance schemes, the authorities has constituted a committee, which would advocate the authorities to establish an inclusive database of farmers, educated a leading official here.

As per the authorities estimate, there are about fourteen.5 crore farmers in the region, whilst only about 9 crore are determined for want of consolidated database of farmers.

Underlining the difficulties included in collating a database of farmers, Ashok Dalwai, Chairman of Committee on Doubling Farmers’ Earnings, mentioned that there has not been a centralised database of farmers due to many concerns these types of as absence of standardisation.

“We have constituted a committee to notify us how this database can be designed. This workout has already been introduced and we will shortly have a standardised database,” mentioned Dalwai in a dialogue on ‘What extra desires to be done to make doubling farmers’ revenue a fact by 2022’ at the BusinessLine Agri Summit here on Thursday.

Including further more he mentioned, “We are on the lookout at distinct strategies in creating this database. There are existing database in other authorities systems. We are trying to use an algorithm under which we can pool-in for one database. For broader coverage of farmers under one standardised database, we will need to operate at a village panchayat stage we will have to enable farmers to get their title on it.”