India has 15 agro-climatic zones, which makes it a very diverse agriculture ecosystem.26 The country’s federal government and several state governments are developing agriculture data stacks with the goal of transforming public services and providing a range of datasets to the private sector to foster digital tech in the country. Two case studies are Agri Stack, developed by the Indian Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, and ADeX, developed by the state government of Telangana in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Indian Institute of Science. Agri Stack: Designed to facilitate the delivery of agritech and other digital services to farmers by the government, agritech start-ups, the private sector or other institutions, Agri Stack holds three primary datasets: farmer identity; geotagged farm location; and crops-sown data. Agri Stack provides a database and registries, data standards, policies for data sharing and APIs. Data will be shared through a service layer/API, the Unified Farmer Service Interface (UFSI). Agricultural Data Exchange (ADeX): ADeX is an open-source and open-standard public good that allows data sharing between data providers and data consumers, mainly the private sector, including start-ups, to build customized services for farmers. The ADeX platform is coupled with the Agriculture Data Management Framework, which lays out policy to enable the government to share data with the private sector once the farmer has given consent for it to do so. In both Agri Stack and ADeX, providing access to finance, advice and markets are three important elements. In terms of interoperability, it is envisioned that a start-up or innovator might obtain a farmer’s personal datasets from Agri Stack and also access ADeX for other datasets, such as weather, soil and pest-infestation data. CASE STUDY 2 Agriculture DPIs in India Source: https://agristack.gov.in/#/; https://dataexplorer.adex.org.in/ Agritech: Shaping Agriculture in Emerging Economies, Today and Tomorrow 15

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