DAPORIJO, Oct 14: In a major push toward agricultural modernization, a high-level coordination meeting was chaired by Assistant Commissioner, Goju Sikom, in-charge DC Upper Subansiri at the Mini Secretariat premises here on Wednesday.
Organized by the district administration, the session focused on aggressively scaling up the digital farmer registration drive under the centrally sponsored AgriStack framework across the district.
Representatives and technical experts from various line departments comprising the district's AgriStack Task Force, alongside key local self-government leaders, including the ZPC and ZPMs of Upper Subansiri, attended the strategy session to finalize the deployment map for the grassroots enumeration.
To ensure seamless execution, the meeting featured an intensive technical orientation conducted by resource persons from IT Solution, Itanagar. The IT team provided comprehensive hands-on training on data synchronization, portal navigation, and troubleshooting digital anomalies during field verification.
Addressing the house, the in-charge DC emphasized the critical importance of strict timelines and inter-departmental synergy to achieve 100 percent saturation. He noted that the initiative aligns with the state-wide rollout highlighted by state Agriculture Minister Gabriel D Wangsu, marking a paradigm shift in creating a robust agricultural information system across the state. By building the digital database, the administration intends to precisely track who the farmers are, what crops they cultivate, and where their land holdings are situated to ensure seamless, leak-proof assistance.
District Agriculture Officer Singdhe Hangu, who served as the member secretary cum convenor of the programme, explained that under this digital framework, every registered farmer in Upper Subansiri will be issued a unique, digitally verifiable Farmer ID.
This dynamic ID will serve as a single window of identity across multiple government departments, simplifying eligibility authentication for subsidies, inputs, credit, and crop insurance. The Task Force officials clarified to the public that this database is strictly an identification and service-delivery tool and does not establish or alter legal land ownership claims.
To facilitate seamless enrolment, the department is deploying ground teams to set up local eKYC registration hubs across the district's circles. Farmers can enroll by providing an active Aadhaar card linked to a valid mobile number (mandatory for receiving secure OTP verification), basic land linkage details and crop declaration data.
The Zilla Parishad leadership and Gaon Burahs have pledged complete cooperation to ensure no eligible farmer—including sharecroppers and women cultivators—is excluded from the database.
The successful implementation of AgriStack is expected to provide a substantial economic boost to Upper Subansiri. Integrating verified digital profiles will strengthen the positioning of local agricultural initiatives, such as the recently initiated Geographical Indication (GI) application process for the famous 'Orange of Upper Subansiri', driven by local Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs). A verified database will seamlessly connect these specialized local growers to regional and national digital markets, eliminating middlemen and ensuring optimal pricing.
The AgriStack Task Force has urged all farming households to cooperate with field surveyors and visit their nearest Common Service Centres (CSCs) or designated circle-level camps to complete their registrations at the earliest. (DIPRO)