AI booster for agri: 7.63 cr farmer IDs created, 23.5 cr crop plots surveyed

India has created a large-scale digital foundation for agriculture with over 7.63 crore farmer IDs and 23.5 crore crop plots surveyed under the Digital Agriculture Mission, an official statement said recently.

According to the statement, the National Pest Surveillance System supports 66 crops and over 432 pest types, providing real-time advisories to more than 10,000 extension workers for early pest detection.

“As of December 2025, the Kisan e-Mitra chatbot has answered more than 93 lakh queries, handling over 8,000 farmer queries daily in 11 regional languages,” said the government.

An AI-based pilot for local monsoon onset forecasting for Kharif 2025 reached 3.88 crore farmers across 13 states via SMS, with 31–52 per cent of surveyed farmers adjusting sowing and land preparation decisions based on the forecasts. Moreover, YES-TECH, CROPIC, and the PMFBY WhatsApp Chatbot are leveraging AI-enabled tools to make crop insurance under PMFBY more innovative, faster, and more transparent for farmers.

Notably, the Union Budget 2026-27 proposed Bharat-VISTAAR, a multilingual AI tool to integrate the AgriStack portals and the ICAR package with AI system.

The statement further stated that the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 highlights India’s approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool for inclusive development.