What is the Krishi Decision Support System (Krishi-DSS)?

Krishi-DSS — the Krishi Decision Support System — is India's first-of-its-kind comprehensive geospatial decision-support platform for agriculture. It is a browser-based, map-driven portal at krishi-dss.gov.in that layers satellite-derived crop maps, soil moisture, IMD weather, drought and heat indices, cropping intensity, pest and disease alerts, ground-water and rainfall with administrative data from AgriStack (farmer and land-parcel registry), PMFBY (crop insurance), the Digital Crop Survey, PM-KISAN, the Soil Health Card scheme, the Kisan Rin Portal (KRP) and the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB). It is built and owned by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW) in the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India, with technical partners ICAR, IIT Bombay, BISAG-N and ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).

When was Krishi-DSS launched and by whom?

Krishi-DSS was formally launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 29 August 2024 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, at the National Conference on Digital Agriculture — the same event at which the AgriStack farmer-registry rollout and Digital Crop Survey scale-up were showcased. The launch preceded, by a few days, the Union Cabinet's 2 September 2024 approval of the ₹2,817 crore Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM) under which Krishi-DSS is a formal pillar. The Press Information Bureau release of 29 August 2024 titled 'PM launches Krishi Decision Support System...' is the primary source.

How is Krishi-DSS different from AgriStack, UPAg and FASAL / CHAMAN?

These are complementary but distinct systems. AgriStack is the underlying digital public infrastructure — a federated farmer registry, land-parcel registry (with ULPIN linkage) and Crop Sown Registry — and Krishi-DSS consumes AgriStack via APIs. UPAg (Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics) is a separate DA&FW analytics dashboard for policy makers, focused on price, production and trade statistics rather than plot-level geospatial layers. FASAL and CHAMAN are older satellite crop-forecasting programmes run at the Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC) — they feed data into Krishi-DSS but are not user-facing decision-support portals in the same way. In short: AgriStack is the source-of-truth registry, MNCFC's FASAL / CHAMAN are the crop-forecast pipelines, UPAg is the statistics dashboard, and Krishi-DSS is the integrated geospatial decision-support layer on top.

Krishi-DSS is designed for institutional users first: state agriculture and horticulture departments (for advisories and scheme targeting), PMFBY insurance surveyors (for loss assessment and cross-verification of the sown crop on the insured plot), ICAR scientists and Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) extension officers, banks and financing institutions (for underwriting Kisan Credit Card and term loans through the Kisan Rin Portal), and Central and state policy planners (for drought, heat and yield-risk monitoring). Farmer-facing consumption is via linked mobile apps (for example the DA&FW's crop-advisory apps and state-level extension apps) that pull Krishi-DSS layers behind the scenes rather than requiring the farmer to visit the portal directly.

What data layers does Krishi-DSS integrate?

Krishi-DSS layers include: satellite-derived crop maps and cropping-intensity indices from ISRO's NRSC (using RISAT, Cartosat and EOS-series imagery); soil moisture and drought indices from NRSC and MNCFC; IMD gridded weather (rainfall, temperature, forecasts); heat-stress indices; the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) ground-water observation-well network; NABARD watershed layers; and administrative layers pulled from AgriStack (Farmer ID and land-parcel geometries), the Digital Crop Survey (season-by-season plot-level sown crop), PMFBY (enrolment and claim records), PM-KISAN (beneficiary lists), the Soil Health Card database and the Kisan Rin Portal (KRP) for KCC underwriting data. All of these are exposed as map overlays and, for authorised users, as APIs.

How do I access Krishi-DSS?

Krishi-DSS is hosted at krishi-dss.gov.in. The portal exposes a public map view with several base layers (crop maps, weather, drought indices) that any visitor can explore without login. Deeper functions — plot-level joins with AgriStack, PMFBY beneficiary drill-downs, Soil Health Card readings, KRP loan-underwriting views and API access — require role-based login credentials issued by DA&FW to state officials, insurance surveyors, ICAR / KVK users and empanelled banks. Farmers do not typically log in to Krishi-DSS directly; they consume its outputs through DA&FW and state extension mobile apps and through advisories issued by their local extension officer.

What about privacy and data-sharing on Krishi-DSS?

Because Krishi-DSS joins farmer-level records from AgriStack, PMFBY, PM-KISAN, the Soil Health Card and the Kisan Rin Portal, its data-sharing framework sits under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Aadhaar linkage of the Farmer ID (through AgriStack) is consent-based, following the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 and subsequent Supreme Court guidance. Land-parcel identification uses ULPIN (Unique Land Parcel Identification Number) from the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme. Reads of farmer-level personally identifiable data by third parties are mediated by explicit consent and authorised data-fiduciary roles — not by open bulk download.

Krishi-DSS — Krishi Decision Support System: India's Geospatial Platform for Agriculture (krishi-dss.gov.in)

The Krishi Decision Support System (Krishi-DSS)is India's first-of-its-kind comprehensive geospatial decision-support platform for agriculture. Hosted at krishi-dss.gov.in, it is a browser-based, map-driven portal that fuses satellite crop maps, soil moisture, IMD weather, drought and heat indices, cropping intensity, pest and disease alerts, ground-water and rainfall with administrative data from AgriStack, PMFBY, the Digital Crop Survey, PM-KISAN, the Soil Health Card scheme and the Kisan Rin Portal (KRP). It was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 29 August 2024 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, and is one of the three pillars of the ₹2,817 crore Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM) approved by the Union Cabinet on 2 September 2024. For the broader index of farmer-welfare programmes see our India government schemes for farmers reference.

What is Krishi-DSS?

Krishi-DSS is an integrated geospatial layer— not a scheme, not a registry, and not a statistics dashboard. It is the interactive map on which India's agricultural data assets come together: the Farmer ID and land-parcel geometries from AgriStack, the season-by-season sown-crop record from the Digital Crop Survey, the enrolment and claim records from Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), the beneficiary list from PM-KISAN, the plot-level soil-property readings from the Soil Health Card database, the KCC and term-loan underwriting data from the Kisan Rin Portal (KRP), and the satellite, weather and ground-water layers from ISRO's NRSC, IMD and the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB). Users can drill down from national to state, district, block and — for authorised users — plot level, and can compose overlays (for example, a heat-stress index over a district's PMFBY-enrolled plots for the current Kharif season).

Launch, mandate and governance

Krishi-DSS was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 29 August 2024 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, at the National Conference on Digital Agriculture. The Press Information Bureau release of the same day titled "PM launches Krishi Decision Support System..." is the primary source. The platform is owned by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW)in the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India. Its technical build is a partnership across:

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) — crop, soil and pest / disease models; validation against long-term ICAR institute datasets.
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) — the geospatial stack, map compositor and decision-support engine.
BISAG-N — Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics — geospatial infrastructure, portal engineering and hosting.
ISRO — National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) — satellite crop, soil-moisture and drought products from RISAT, EOS-series and Cartosat missions.

Data layers and integrated sources

The value of Krishi-DSS lies in its join across previously siloed datasets. The main integrated sources are:

AgriStack — Farmer ID, land-parcel geometry (with ULPIN linkage), Crop Sown Registry.
Digital Crop Survey (DCS) — mobile-app-based, geo-tagged, season-by-season sown-crop record that replaces the paper girdawari.
PMFBY — insurance enrolment, sum insured, claim status and yield-loss records.
PM-KISAN — beneficiary lists and instalment status.
Soil Health Card — plot-level readings of N, P, K, pH, organic carbon and micro-nutrients.
Kisan Rin Portal (KRP) — KCC and term-loan underwriting data, plugging into the Kisan Credit Card workflow.
IMD — gridded rainfall, temperature and block-level weather forecasts.
NRSC / ISRO — satellite crop maps, cropping intensity, soil moisture, drought indices from RISAT, EOS-series and Cartosat.
Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) — observation-well water-level data.
NABARD watershed layers — micro-watershed geometries and treatment status.

Use cases

PMFBY insurance surveyors — cross-verify the crop actually sown on an insured plot against the Digital Crop Survey record, and use NRSC crop-condition and yield-cutting layers for YES-TECH / Digi-Claim settlement.
State agriculture and horticulture departments — plan advisories, target subsidy under PMKSY and nano-fertiliser programmes, and monitor drought and heat stress in real time.
ICAR scientists and KVK extension officers — calibrate crop models, run localised advisories and validate long-term agronomic experiments against satellite crop-condition layers.
Banks and financing institutions — underwrite KCC and term loans through the Kisan Rin Portal (KRP) using the Farmer ID + land-parcel + sown-crop join.
Central and state policy planners — drought and yield-risk monitoring, buffer-stock and procurement planning in convergence with FCI and NAFED.
Farmer-facing mobile apps— DA&FW and state-level extension apps consume Krishi-DSS layers behind the scenes to deliver advisories in the farmer's hand.

Krishi-DSS as a pillar of the Digital Agriculture Mission

The Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM) is a Central Sector scheme with a total outlay of ₹2,817 crore approved by the Union Cabinet on 2 September 2024. DAM funds three convergent pillars: AgriStack (the farmer-and-plot registry), the Soil Profile Map at 1:10,000 scale, and Krishi-DSS. Krishi-DSS is the analytical and decision-support face of the mission — the layer on which AgriStack, soil maps, satellite data and scheme records come together as an interactive geospatial view. Its expansion of data layers and downstream APIs is a core DAM workstream through 2026–27. See our Digital Agriculture Mission deep-dive for the full mission structure and state-wise rollout schedule.

Krishi-DSS vs AgriStack vs UPAg vs FASAL / CHAMAN

These four are frequently confused. In practice they play distinct, complementary roles:

AgriStack — the underlying digital public infrastructure: a federated farmer registry, a land-parcel registry (with ULPIN linkage) and a Crop Sown Registry. It is the source-of-truth for "which farmer, which plot, which crop". Krishi-DSS consumes AgriStack via APIs.
UPAg (Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics) — a separate DA&FW analytics dashboard for policy makers, focused on price, production and trade statistics. UPAg is a numbers dashboard; Krishi-DSS is a map.
FASAL and CHAMAN — older satellite crop-forecasting programmes at the Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC). FASAL forecasts area, yield and production for major field crops; CHAMAN (Coordinated Horticulture Assessment and Management using geo-iNformatics) does the same for horticulture. Both feed data into Krishi-DSS but are not themselves user-facing decision-support portals.
Krishi-DSS — the integrated geospatial decision-support layer on top of AgriStack, MNCFC forecasts, NRSC satellite products, IMD weather, CGWB ground-water and scheme records.

How to access — portal URL, login and mobile-app linkage

Portal: krishi-dss.gov.in.
Public view: the map interface with several base layers (crop maps, cropping intensity, weather, drought indices) is accessible without login and is meant for general awareness, journalists, researchers and agritech scoping.
Authenticated view:plot-level joins with AgriStack, PMFBY beneficiary drill-downs, Soil Health Card readings, KRP loan-underwriting views and API access require role-based login credentials issued by DA&FW to state officials, insurance surveyors, ICAR / KVK users and empanelled banks.
Farmer-facing consumption:farmers do not typically visit krishi-dss.gov.in directly. They receive advisories through DA&FW and state extension mobile apps (which call Krishi-DSS APIs) and through their local extension officer, KVK or FPO.

Integration with other schemes on this site

Krishi-DSS is engineered as an integration hub; most of what it delivers is a join across schemes that already have their own deep-dives on this site:

Kisan Credit Card (KCC): KRP loan underwriting inside Krishi-DSS uses the Farmer ID + land-parcel + sown-crop join to accelerate KCC sanction.
PMFBY crop insurance: YES-TECH yield estimation and Digi-Claim settlements read Krishi-DSS layers (NRSC crop condition, DGCES yield cuts, IMD weather) for insured plots.
PM-KISAN: the beneficiary list is overlaid on the Farmer Registry, letting state officials see PM-KISAN coverage on the same map as the insured / KCC-linked plot.
Soil Health Card: plot-level SHC readings ride on top of the 1:10,000 Soil Profile Map, feeding fertiliser advisories directly into Krishi-DSS.
Digital Agriculture Mission: Krishi-DSS is a formal pillar of DAM; expansion of layers and APIs is a DAM workstream.
PMKSY: watershed and micro-irrigation layers help state agriculture departments target Per Drop More Crop and watershed interventions on drought-prone blocks visible on Krishi-DSS.
Nano-fertilisers and PM-PRANAM: plot-level SHC and NRSC-derived nutrient deficiency maps guide targeted nano-urea and nano-DAP demonstrations.

Limitations, privacy and data-sharing

Data currency: Krishi-DSS is only as fresh as the state-supplied Digital Crop Survey and AgriStack enrolment cycle in that district. In states where DCS is still ramping, plot-level sown-crop overlays will be sparse or lag by a season.
Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023: joins with PM-KISAN, PMFBY, KRP and SHC bring farmer-level PII into scope. Reads by third parties are mediated by explicit farmer consent and authorised data-fiduciary roles — not by bulk download.
Aadhaar linkage:the Farmer ID's Aadhaar linkage (via AgriStack) is consent-based, following the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 and subsequent Supreme Court guidance.
ULPIN land parcel linkage: plot geometry uses the Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) from the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP); coverage varies by state.
Not a substitute for ground-truth: satellite layers give a synoptic view but should be triangulated with KVK extension observations and JAM-verified survey data before operational or claim decisions.

Digital Agriculture Mission

₹2,817 cr Central Sector scheme (2 Sep 2024) that funds AgriStack, Soil Profile Mapping and Krishi-DSS.

PMFBY

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana — YES-TECH and Digi-Claim read Krishi-DSS layers for insured plots.

PM-KISAN

₹6,000 / year DBT — beneficiary list overlaid on the Farmer Registry in Krishi-DSS.

Kisan Credit Card

KRP loan underwriting inside Krishi-DSS accelerates KCC sanction using Farmer ID + plot + sown crop.

Soil Health Card

Plot-level SHC readings ride on the 1:10,000 Soil Profile Map and feed fertiliser advisories in Krishi-DSS.

PMKSY

Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana — watershed and micro-irrigation targeting off Krishi-DSS drought layers.

Nano-fertilisers

Plot-level SHC and nutrient-deficiency maps in Krishi-DSS guide nano-urea and nano-DAP demonstrations.

All schemes

Browse the full farmer-welfare portfolio index.

References

Krishi Decision Support System (krishi-dss.gov.in) — the portal itself: public map view, layer catalogue and role-based login for authorised users.
Press Information Bureau (PIB) — release dated 29 August 2024 titled "PM launches Krishi Decision Support System..." and 2 September 2024 Cabinet approval of the ₹2,817 crore Digital Agriculture Mission.
Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (agriwelfare.gov.in) — Krishi-DSS programme page, AgriStack and Digital Crop Survey documentation.
Digital Agriculture Mission portal (digitalagriculture.gov.in) — mission-level dashboard covering AgriStack, Soil Profile Map and Krishi-DSS workstreams.
ISRO — National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) — satellite crop, soil-moisture and drought products (RISAT, EOS-series, Cartosat) feeding Krishi-DSS.
Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC) — FASAL and CHAMAN crop-forecast pipelines whose outputs feed Krishi-DSS.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) — gridded rainfall and block-level weather forecasts consumed by Krishi-DSS.
Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) — observation-well ground-water data layered on Krishi-DSS.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Krishi Decision Support System (Krishi-DSS)?: Krishi-DSS — the Krishi Decision Support System — is India's first-of-its-kind comprehensive geospatial decision-support platform for agriculture. It is a browser-based, map-driven portal at krishi-dss.gov.in that layers satellite-derived crop maps, soil moisture, IMD weather, drought and heat indices, cropping intensity, pest and disease alerts, ground-water and rainfall with administrative data from AgriStack (farmer and land-parcel registry), PMFBY (crop insurance), the Digital Crop Survey, PM-KISAN, the Soil Health Card scheme, the Kisan Rin Portal (KRP) and the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB). It is built and owned by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW) in the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India, with technical partners ICAR, IIT Bombay, BISAG-N and ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).
When was Krishi-DSS launched and by whom?: Krishi-DSS was formally launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 29 August 2024 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, at the National Conference on Digital Agriculture — the same event at which the AgriStack farmer-registry rollout and Digital Crop Survey scale-up were showcased. The launch preceded, by a few days, the Union Cabinet's 2 September 2024 approval of the ₹2,817 crore Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM) under which Krishi-DSS is a formal pillar. The Press Information Bureau release of 29 August 2024 titled 'PM launches Krishi Decision Support System...' is the primary source.
How is Krishi-DSS different from AgriStack, UPAg and FASAL / CHAMAN?: These are complementary but distinct systems. AgriStack is the underlying digital public infrastructure — a federated farmer registry, land-parcel registry (with ULPIN linkage) and Crop Sown Registry — and Krishi-DSS consumes AgriStack via APIs. UPAg (Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics) is a separate DA&FW analytics dashboard for policy makers, focused on price, production and trade statistics rather than plot-level geospatial layers. FASAL and CHAMAN are older satellite crop-forecasting programmes run at the Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC) — they feed data into Krishi-DSS but are not user-facing decision-support portals in the same way. In short: AgriStack is the source-of-truth registry, MNCFC's FASAL / CHAMAN are the crop-forecast pipelines, UPAg is the statistics dashboard, and Krishi-DSS is the integrated geospatial decision-support layer on top.
Who uses Krishi-DSS?: Krishi-DSS is designed for institutional users first: state agriculture and horticulture departments (for advisories and scheme targeting), PMFBY insurance surveyors (for loss assessment and cross-verification of the sown crop on the insured plot), ICAR scientists and Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) extension officers, banks and financing institutions (for underwriting Kisan Credit Card and term loans through the Kisan Rin Portal), and Central and state policy planners (for drought, heat and yield-risk monitoring). Farmer-facing consumption is via linked mobile apps (for example the DA&FW's crop-advisory apps and state-level extension apps) that pull Krishi-DSS layers behind the scenes rather than requiring the farmer to visit the portal directly.
What data layers does Krishi-DSS integrate?: Krishi-DSS layers include: satellite-derived crop maps and cropping-intensity indices from ISRO's NRSC (using RISAT, Cartosat and EOS-series imagery); soil moisture and drought indices from NRSC and MNCFC; IMD gridded weather (rainfall, temperature, forecasts); heat-stress indices; the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) ground-water observation-well network; NABARD watershed layers; and administrative layers pulled from AgriStack (Farmer ID and land-parcel geometries), the Digital Crop Survey (season-by-season plot-level sown crop), PMFBY (enrolment and claim records), PM-KISAN (beneficiary lists), the Soil Health Card database and the Kisan Rin Portal (KRP) for KCC underwriting data. All of these are exposed as map overlays and, for authorised users, as APIs.
How does Krishi-DSS fit into the Digital Agriculture Mission?: The Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM) — a Central Sector scheme with a total outlay of ₹2,817 crore approved by the Union Cabinet on 2 September 2024 — funds three convergent pillars: AgriStack (the farmer-and-plot registry), the Soil Profile Map at 1:10,000 scale, and Krishi-DSS. Krishi-DSS is the analytical and decision-support face of the mission — the layer where AgriStack, soil maps, satellite data and scheme records come together as an interactive geospatial view. Its expansion of data layers and downstream APIs is a core DAM workstream through 2026–27.
How do I access Krishi-DSS?: Krishi-DSS is hosted at krishi-dss.gov.in. The portal exposes a public map view with several base layers (crop maps, weather, drought indices) that any visitor can explore without login. Deeper functions — plot-level joins with AgriStack, PMFBY beneficiary drill-downs, Soil Health Card readings, KRP loan-underwriting views and API access — require role-based login credentials issued by DA&FW to state officials, insurance surveyors, ICAR / KVK users and empanelled banks. Farmers do not typically log in to Krishi-DSS directly; they consume its outputs through DA&FW and state extension mobile apps and through advisories issued by their local extension officer.
What about privacy and data-sharing on Krishi-DSS?: Because Krishi-DSS joins farmer-level records from AgriStack, PMFBY, PM-KISAN, the Soil Health Card and the Kisan Rin Portal, its data-sharing framework sits under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Aadhaar linkage of the Farmer ID (through AgriStack) is consent-based, following the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 and subsequent Supreme Court guidance. Land-parcel identification uses ULPIN (Unique Land Parcel Identification Number) from the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme. Reads of farmer-level personally identifiable data by third parties are mediated by explicit consent and authorised data-fiduciary roles — not by open bulk download.

Krishi-DSS's launch date (29 August 2024, PM Modi at Bharat Mandapam), its portal URL (krishi-dss.gov.in), the DA&FW + ICAR + IIT Bombay + BISAG-N + NRSC build partnership, its status as a pillar of the ₹2,817 crore Digital Agriculture Mission approved on 2 September 2024, and the AgriStack / PMFBY / PM-KISAN / SHC / KRP / IMD / NRSC / CGWB integration surface summarise publicly available material on krishi-dss.gov.in, the Digital Agriculture Mission portal at digitalagriculture.gov.in and PIB releases. Layer catalogues, API endpoints and role-based access flows evolve continuously — verify current portal documentation before designing systems or advisories that depend on Krishi-DSS outputs.