Kerala creates 11-member, Chief Secretary-led State AgriStack Data Governance Committee for farm sector
The Kerala government has established an 11-member State AgriStack Data Governance Committee to manage agricultural data. This committee will oversee the state's digital infrastructure for farmer identity, land records, and crop data as part of the national Digital Agriculture Mission.
Why it matters
It marks a significant step in digitizing India's agricultural sector, aiming to streamline subsidy distribution and scheme implementation through a centralized data backbone.
The Kerala government has created a 11-member State AgriStack Data Governance Committee (SADGC) headed by the Chief Secretary which will act as the institutional architecture for handling crucial data associated with the State’s agriculture sector.
The panel’s constitution is in line with a set of operational guidelines issued by the Union government to State and Union Territories in September 2025 to assume full ownership of the AgriStack operational backbone under the ‘State Core Handover Support’ programme. In the initial phase, the Centre wanted States to discharge “fiduciary, approval and oversight functions” through a committee-based or departmentally anchored mechanism, such as the SADGC.
The Chief Secretary-led panel will function as the empowered body to exercise these functions in Kerala, the Agriculture Department said in a July 25 order. It will act as the “fiduciary custodian of all AgriStack data within the State, held in public trust for farmers and farming communities.”
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