Drive underway to generate unique identification numbers for farmers

State-wide drive creating unique IDs for farmers under Agri Stack program to improve access to benefits and services.

A State-wide drive is under way to generate unique identification numbers for farmers as part of a Farmers Registry being created under the Agri Stack programme.

The exercise is being carried out as per the guidelines of the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

Officials of the Agriculture Department and allied departments are conducting the special camps in all revenue villages to collect farmers’ data and generate the unique identification and e-signatures for them. The data of the farmers would be uploaded only with the consent of the farmers, the district authorities said.

According to sources in the Agriculture Department, the special camps are being conducted at the offices of the Village Administrative Officers, Agriculture Extension Centres, Panchayat Union Offices or other places at village-level.

Assistant Agricultural Officers and Agricultural Officers of the Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Horticulture, Agricultural Marketing and Agri Business and Seed Certification Department are involved in the exercise.

Besides, the services of community resource persons of Mahalir Thittam and Illam Thedi Kalvi scheme volunteers are also being utilised for conducting the simultaneous exercise.

The camps which began on Monday are expected to go on at least until February 15, the sources said.