CII is committed to 
                                                                              working towards 
         CII National 
                                                                   Scaling India’s           Raising farmer               Creating a 
                                                                agricultural growth             incomes               sustainable agri 
               Council                                                                                                business sector 
                       On 
          Agriculture
                                                                                Ensuring economic development of India
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                                           Leveraging RST towards enabling Digitization of Land Records 
                                           for better production management, risk mitigation and in turn 
                                           increased farm income
       Drivers 
                                           Promoting Aggregation towards offsetting limitations of 
       identified                          fragmented land holdings
       to 
                                           Strengthening Market Linkage towards better price realisation 
       address                             for farmers
       sector 
                                           Enhancing Export Competitiveness to meet targets of Agri 
       challenge                           Export Policy and improving farmers’ incomes
       s
                                           Enabling policy and regulatory environment towards ease of 
                                           doing agriculture business
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   Leveraging RST for Land Record Digitization
  CII recommends that the Government of India on priority should initiate a program to undertake the 
    digitization of land records (including updation of registration/mutation of land) to create a state-wise 
    possible data base of the agricultural land, their owners and its seasonal/ crop wise use 
  US and China use RST extensively and have highest levels of productivity.
  Karnataka has made tremendous progress towards land record digitization and has a fairly accurate 
    record of the land ownership, cropping pattern and related factors. Similar models can be adopted by 
    other states.
  CII along with industry is engaging with the Government of Karnataka on how the available data pool 
    can be made available to private sector to help production planning as per consumer requirements
                  Direct Benefits of Land Record Digitisation 
               Digitized                         Facilitation of access to 
                Land             Aadhar           Loans, insurance and 
               Records            Card               Direct Benefit 
                                                      Transfers.
               Digitized         Mobile              Facilitation of 
                Land            Telephon          Extension, GAP, Crop 
               Records            y Data            Market Pricing 
                                                     Information                            4
                      Adding Value to Digitized Land 
                                                            Records
                                                     Opportunities                                    Expected impact on Farmers
        Digitised Land Records                                                                  •   Reduction in losses with predictive 
                                           •   Crop Production Forecasting                          crop management
                                           •   Crop Planning and Acreage                        •   Targeted delivery of subsidies
                                               Estimation                                       •   Efficient delivery of crop insurance 
                                           •   Predictive Crop                                      by optimising crop-cutting 
                                               Management                                           experiments
                                           •   Soil Moisture Monitoring                         •   Quantitively identifiable sourcing
                                           •   Water Resource                                   •   Market efficiency and better prices 
           Remote Sensing                      Management
              Technology                                                                            for farmers 
              Applications
          CII  proposes that the Govt. of India take the lead and responsibility to study in-depth the use of RST in 
          agriculture and propose time bound comprehensive action plan for its implementation on a project mode 
          basis. We believe that this technology would be of great value and can be a game changer for agriculture in 
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                                                    CII recommends crop aggregations 
                                                                under two sub-heads
          Promoting 
          Aggregatio
          n
                                                    Scaling-up Farmer-Producer            Faster uptake of Model 
                                                        Organisation Model             Agricultural Land Leasing Act 
                                                                                                   2018
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