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Input-side digital platforms serving farmers (including those engaged in specialised value chains, like aquaculture or high value produce like exotic fruits and vegetables) by offering agriculture inputs (seeds, nutrition and pest control), mechanisation or productivity-increasing tools (both, on sale or on lease) and enable them to eliminate any delays in production caused by travelling to nearby markets or due to inadequate access to essential inputs (inputs are either not available easily or time involved in procuring them leads to delay in production). Such platform providers also offer advisory services to farmers to resolve the problem of information asymmetries, thereby improving production yield and increasing their income.
Improvement in farm productivity, farmers' income levels and bolster food security by enabling easy and ubiquitous access to digital markets for quality farm inputs.
