Designing foundational registries for India’s AgriStack

• Sep 10, 2025
• 1 min

AgriStack is India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI) designed to transform the agriculture ecosystem by establishing interoperable digital platforms that integrate farmers, government systems, and markets. At its core, AgriStack includes the Farmer Registry, Digital Crop Survey (DCS), and Metadata & Data Standards (MDDS) for agriculture. MSC helped design and implement these key registries. These systems comprise the foundational digital layer that links verified farmer identities, land records, crop production data, and market transactions that enable data interoperability and more accurate, farmer-centric decision-making.

As part of this DPI, India has already issued more than 61 million digital farmer IDs across 14 states.These IDs connect to land records, crop data, livestock ownership, and benefits, such as credit and insurance, which brings unprecedented scope and scale to digital agriculture governance.

MSC’s work conceptualizes interoperable data structures and metadata standards. We boost the government’s capability to deliver targeted interventions, enhance market access, and catalyze AgriTech innovation. The systems we helped build underpin seamless data exchange, which ranges from subsidy delivery to KCC issuance. These tools help establish the backbone for scalable, inclusive agriculture transformation across India.

The Gates Foundation commissioned this project.