## Impact stories


## Featured Content

### Advancing Digital Public Infrastructure for the Agriculture Sector

India’s DPI is a transformative initiative, aligning with the nation’s push towards a digital economy. These innovations streamline governance, enhance financial inclusion and provide a strong foundation for emerging technologies. Its UPI has revolutionized financial transactions, fostering a cashless society. Despite the successes, challenges such as data security and privacy concerns require continual attention. Overall, India’s DPI exemplifies a concerted effort towards inclusive, tech-driven development.

[Read more](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Advancing_Digital_Public_Infrastructure_Agriculture_Sector_2024.pdf)

### AI for agriculture: How Indian farmers are harvesting innovation

Over 7,000 farmers are using the technology to monitor the health of their crops, perform quality control and test soil. The success has enabled confidence to expand the program to 500,000 farmers by 2025

[Read more](https://www.weforum.org/impact/ai-for-agriculture-in-india/)

### C4IR India | How India is supporting smallholder farmers using AI

Almost 85% of India’s agriculture sector is comprised of smallholder farmers, who face challenges from financing to crop wastage. Purushottam Kaushik, Head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) in India, shares how the rollout of AI-based agriculture technologies is boosting crop yields and revenue among chili farmers in India.C4IR | Impact on the Ground is a series that showcases projects from across the World Economic Forum’s global C4IR Network. Each episode explores how emerging technologies are being piloted, scaled, and deployed in a safe and responsible way to improve people’s lives and protect the planet.

[Read more](https://www.weforum.org/videos/c4ir-india-smallholder-farmers-ai/)

### India's first Agriculture Data Exchange (ADEx) is now LIVE!

ADeX is an open source software platform that will facilitate secure and authenticated exchange of data amongst various data platforms.The concept of a publicly-owned non-profit data exchange software platform that allows sharing of public and private data, while enforcing security, consent, and commercial policies, has been successfully deployed.ADeX will bring the providers and users of all pertinent agricultural data together, as well as to provide access to other information such as weather and satellite images. It will transform how farmers manage their operations by ensuring the various stakeholders in the ecosystem can collaborate and jointly participate in creating solutions. Examples of such solutions include:Soil Health Management, Smart Farmer, Credit, Electronic Farm Records, Pest Control and Management, Sharing of Farm Machinery etc

[Read more](https://adex.org.in/)