National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGP-A)
India
The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (DAC), Ministry of Agriculture has implemented National e-Governance Programme (NeGP) in the Agricultural Sector as a Mission Mode Project (A-MMP), covering the Agriculture sector, Livestock sector and Fisheries sector. The A-MMP aims to address the needs of the farming community and its other related stakeholders, through provision of relevant information and services through the various delivery channels available in their vicinity for assisting them in making rational decision. Under this initiative, Agriculture Resources Information System Network (AGRISNET); mobile applications like Kisan Suvidha; and web applications like mKisan portal have been developed.
Lead (category)
Government agency
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Government of India
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
Technology-neutral supporting services (incubation, finance, training, etc)
Agritech, startup or SMEs capacity and enabling services
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Agriculture
E-Government Services
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Business and governance structure
The National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture is a centrally sponsored Mission Mode Project. Phase I of the project has been implemented in seven different states across the country, in line with the 11th plan, during the year 2010-11. The project has now been extended to the rest of the 22 states of the country, including the 7 Union Territories. The project provides various services including Government to Business, Government to Consumer, Government to Government and Government to Employee, among others.
DI ICT-deliverables format
Web-based platform
Mobile applications
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
There are 12 clusters of services under the project, consisting of 23 services. Common applications for these services would be deployed down to the block level across these 12 clusters, 23 services, as well as the 75 components
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
National
All over India
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution