IoT Based Agricultural System and Legal Frameworks: A Study with reference to Indian Socio-economic Conditions

Influenced by the sustainability-concentration the agro-policy and regulatory frameworks, besides, preserving depletion of natural resources vis-a-vis reinforce productivity, have turned its hand to democratized approach of knowledge-intensive convergence of technological data-outcomes (commonly known as Internet o Things) to configure the agrarian distress in a comprehensive manner with the objectives of attainment of societal, economic and health priorities of the country. The underpinning of IoT based agricultural system is the integrated and coordinated approaches to foster the “leapfrog” opportunities to consider and address: a) the desired-efficiency in agro-productivity to mitigate the market-demands; b) efficient allocation of resources; c) climate change-induced risks and market intelligence; d) sustaining capacity-growth for both i) domestic food security and rural development, and ii) as benefactor to the valued supply chain of international trade on agro-productivity. Putting such modernized version of agriculture into being within the frame of reference of the traditional smallholders’ ‘subsistence - agriculture’ in India would transfigure the agro-sector into ‘commercial agriculture’, with the surge of performance expectancy, diversification of agro-productivity portfolios, competitiveness and strengthening of economic-base of the farmers however, to accomplish such awes and wonders quintessentially urge the expanded capacity-building at the Infrastructural and Institutional levels to facilitate the opportunities to myriad small and marginal landholders of the country - which is capital-intensive. And to capture such benefits of value-additions with the view to set up a market-oriented agri-food market in India a comprehensive agro-policy and regulatory frameworks is indispensable. Present legislations that the Government has come about contemplated to achieve the desired outcomes, have experienced huge protest. The present endeavour is focused upon ascertainment of the projected ‘facilitator-driven model’ and its contributory roles harmonizing the economic-interests of all stakeholders in the light of enhanced agro-productivity on adaptive agricultural system with IoT in Indian agro-sector.