Challenge Detail

Drones offer significant potential for spraying, crop-health monitoring and land mapping, but current adoption is concentrated in select districts, constrained by limited operator capacity and regulatory clarity.
 

Existing Issues & Gaps

• Limited service coverage in remote, rural and tribal blocks.
• High per-hectare service cost for small and marginal farmers.
• Shortage of licensed Remote Pilot Certificate (RPC) holders.
• Fragmented regulatory compliance (DGCA Digital Sky, State nodal clearance) with no integration into departmental/KVK systems.

Expected Outcomes & Desired Solution

A scalable DaaS platform with a demand-aggregation and booking engine, Digital Sky/UIN-based regulatory-compliance workflows, subsidised service-fee models routed through DBT, a standardised RPC training/certification pipeline in partnership with KVKs, and API-level integration with Agristack/departmental portals for flight-log and application-data capture.
 

Key Stakeholders & Beneficiaries

Farmers (small & marginal); Department of Agriculture & Extension Services; Drone Service Providers/Startups; Krishi Vigyan Kendras; DGCA-empanelled RPTOs.