Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics (UPAg)
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Overview
- News in Brief
- About Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics (UPAg)
Why in News?
The Indian government has introduced the Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics (UPAg), an online platform developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.
News in Brief
- It is hailed as a significant leap forward in managing agricultural data.
- The UPAg Portal is intended to serve as a public resource, streamlining access to credible, granular, and objective data while reducing search costs and inefficiencies for users.
- The UPAg Portal’s core function is to generate crop estimates and integrate with other agriculture-related statistical systems.
- It aims to combat challenges like non-standardized and unverified data, ultimately supporting data-driven decision-making in India’s agriculture sector.
About Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics (UPAg)
- The platform aims to make agricultural data more accessible, reliable, and standardized, reducing search costs and empowering users to make data-driven decisions in the field.
- It addresses issues with non-standardized and unverified data by providing real-time, verified information on agricultural commodities.
- The platform generates crop estimates and integrates with other systems for agriculture statistics, such as price, trade, procurement, and stock.
- This initiative aligns with e-governance principles, introducing smartness, transparency, and agility to India’s agriculture sector.
- The ministry is also working on other initiatives, including the Krishi Decision Support System, farmer registry, and crop survey, to enhance data accuracy and digital data governance in agriculture.
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