How does the Digital Agriculture Mission leverage technology to transform the lives of farmers in India? Substantiate your answer with relevant examples.

Digital Agriculture helps correct deficiency and issues of farmers by using technology to promote their welfare. It & can transform farmers' lives by (1) Reducing resource consumption by AI soil monitoring helps optimize fertilizer usage → saving costs while increasing yields (2) Promoting better vigilance and monitoring of crop → IoT drones can spot pest-attack and crop disease (3) Improves agricultural techniques by information dissemination Δ KISAN e-mitra Chatbot that

Supplies cultivation advice to farmers (4) Improves supply chain efficiency using blockchain Δ Kerala's coffee industry uses blockchain based supply chain monitoring (5) Increases crop marketability leading to greater demand Δ e-NAM → one-window location for agricultural marketing (6) Helps transparent and speedy benefit delivery Δ PM JOY & PM KISAN → Lead to DBT for fertilizer and seed purchase Hence digital agriculture improves grassroot-level agricultural issues and promotes farmer welfare.

— Varun Tokas · AIR 117