India's Digital Public Infrastructure in Agriculture

Another place that India leads,

but there's a lot more that all of you can be involved in driving forward,

is this digital public infrastructure.

You know, no country is more able to take government benefits and get them out

efficiently and effectively to their citizens than India.

You know, you would have expected rich countries or others to do that, but in fact,

they did not.

And so that basic structure that starts with identity and bank accounts and

payments is just foundational.

And as part of this visit,

I'm now seeing how that foundation is being built out, built out in agriculture

with profiles of farmers to understand what they need and give them advice,

built out with

health records so that we can help people not only with infectious diseases,

but the challenge that's coming in

the future with the growth of the non communicable diseases being a huge thing.

And that digital public infrastructure will help us with these climate problems.

I was in Odisha yesterday, and what they showed is that they've

registered the farmers and registered what type of crops they grow and what

land they own. They literally have a control center.

You know, when you walk in, you think, wow, this is agriculture, but, you

know, you've got a command center and maps and people doing queries and sending

out messages. And so that all starts,

you know, with an Aadhaar identity, listing those farmers,

getting the information, making sure it's up to date.