Samagra, with support from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is working with the Government of UP to enable department officers with timely visibility on status & quality of implementation for each scheme. Farm-level data will also help them identify archetypes of farmers and provide them with services customised to their individual needs. This essentially would set up the foundations for any agricultural reform that the state wants to undertake in the future.
Samagra’s approach in making the department of agriculture battle ready to implement any reform in the sector is through setting up data pipelines that will help in identifying farmer archetypes and provide them services and products tailored to their immediate needs on the farm. Data-backed decision making systems would also help the department while conducting reviews at each cascade (state > district > block). Better visibility on where scheme implementation or adoption is getting bottlenecked will help in more targeted problem solving.This would be supplemented by a Krushi Samiksha Kendra, an integrated command and control centre for the government, through which it can send nudges to ground cadres to achieve targets, push weather/pest alerts to farmers, and conduct surveys to take inputs from ground on a time-to-time basis.