fieldWISE: Transforming Indian Agriculture Through Digital Public Infrastructure

Indian agriculture faces interconnected structural challenges: fragmented farm data scattered across multiple systems, climate volatility increasing weather-related crop losses, pest and disease outbreaks spreading unchecked due to delayed information, and persistent gaps in government scheme utilisation. While state governments possess valuable agricultural information—soil health, weather patterns, irrigation data, and crop performance—this intelligence remains siloed and disconnected from real-time field conditions. Smallholder farmers, representing over 86% of India's agricultural population, lack timely, actionable intelligence to optimise crop selection, sowing timing, and input allocation.

fieldWISE functions as digital public infrastructure that integrates diverse data sources—including satellite imagery, weather stations, soil testing laboratories, IoT field sensors, and government registries—and distills aggregated intelligence into field-level, user-specific recommendations. Advanced modules support climate-smart crop planning, real-time field monitoring, AI-powered advisory, crop health and water stress alerts, pest and disease forecasting, soil nutrition mapping, yield prediction, and seamless market linkage. The architecture operates on open standards with RESTful APIs, enabling integration with central government systems such as PM-KISAN, Farmer ID registry, and e-KYC, as well as state platforms including e-Panta, d-Krishi, and InSight.

In Andhra Pradesh, fieldWISE powers APAIMS 2.0, one of India's most comprehensive agricultural digitisation initiatives. Designed to eliminate offline agricultural operations beginning Kharif 2025, APAIMS consolidates seed distribution, pest alerts, agro-advisories, input supply chain management, e-marketplace access, and direct benefit transfer workflows into a unified system. In Kerala, fieldWISE underpins the Kerala Agriculture Technology Hub and Information Repository (KATHIR), with accessibility prioritised through multi-language support in more than 11 languages, voice-based navigation, and image-based crop mapping.

The platform demonstrates large-scale operational impact: 12 million farmers across six states, 3 million farms digitised with geo-tagged boundaries, 12,000 villages integrated into agroclimatic crop planning, and 35 major irrigation projects monitored in real time. APAIMS deployments covered 800,000 hectares with targeted pest advisories, optimised crop planning for 10 million farms, enabled early drought declarations across 274 mandals, and reduced fertiliser consumption by 7.5% across 18,000 villages without yield loss. KATHIR implementation includes 1.1 million registered farmers, 1.1 million hectares classified, and 0.7 million plots monitored daily. fieldWISE applies privacy-by-design governance with explicit digital consent, state data centre hosting for sovereignty, and open API architecture enabling independent algorithmic audits.
For additional context and detailed documentation of this use case, please refer to pages 29-30 in the attached Casebook.