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Can An ‘Agri-Stack’ Help Solve Indian Agriculture’s Age-Old Problems?
A unique farmer ID, a Unified Farmer Service Interface form the backbone of a new agri-stack concept. Can it work?
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![<div class="paragraphs"><p>A farmer drives a Mahindra 475 DI tractor, manufactured by Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., through an areca nut farm in the village of Kuragunda in Karnataka, India. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg).</p></div>](https://media.assettype.com/bloombergquint%2F2018-07%2F4b3abf36-10a0-4da6-921f-345d0ba8e332%2F325120583_1_16.jpg?rect=0%2C417%2C4000%2C2250&auto=format%2Ccompress&w=200)
A farmer drives a Mahindra 475 DI tractor, manufactured by Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., through an areca nut farm in the village of Kuragunda in Karnataka, India. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg).
Thirty-year-old Bhushan Kumar Singh is a third-generation farmer who grows vegetables such as brinjal, bottle gourd and okra on his five-acre farm at Mahua in Bihar.His ways may be more modern compared to his father's, but ask him if technology has made a difference to his life and you'll get an answer equivalent to a shrug.Technology has helped us in many ways, say for checking soil quality, getting weather updates, drip irrigation ...
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