Topic directory
Agriculture
Verified datasets, public-interest software, research publications and organisations addressing agriculture.
- Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India
Participatory development programmes for rural livelihoods and ecological regeneration.
Organisation AgricultureWelfare India, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar
Go straight to Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India - Agmarknet
Daily wholesale prices and arrivals for agricultural commodities, reported from regulated markets across India
Dashboard AgricultureEconomy India
Go straight to Agmarknet - Agriculture Census of India
Five-yearly statistics on operational holdings, holding size, land use, irrigation, tenancy and farmer characteristics
Data source AgricultureLand India
Go straight to Agriculture Census of India - Akshayakalpa / Akshayakalpa Foundation
Farmer-entrepreneurship, regenerative farming, and rural livelihoods rooted in organic dairy systems.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Go straight to Akshayakalpa / Akshayakalpa Foundation - Annadana Soil and Seed Savers Network
Nonprofit conserving heirloom seeds and teaching regenerative, chemical-free agriculture through farms and farmer networks
Organisation AgricultureEnvironment India, Karnataka
Go straight to Annadana Soil and Seed Savers Network - BAIF Development Research Foundation
Rural development institution pioneering tribal wadi agroforestry, sustainable livestock management, and watershed regeneration across India
Organisation AgricultureLand India
Go straight to BAIF Development Research Foundation - Buzz Women
Empowering underserved women through knowledge, skills, and livelihood tools.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Karnataka
Go straight to Buzz Women - CEDA Agri Market Data
A friendlier interface over AGMARKNET data — explore prices, arrivals, and trends across thousands of Indian agricultural markets
Data source AgricultureEconomy India
Go straight to CEDA Agri Market Data - Central Food Grains Storage Portal (CFSP)
Government portal tracking central pool food grain storage capacity and stocks across India — the supply-side complement to the NFSA distribution dashboard
Dashboard AgricultureWelfare India
Go straight to Central Food Grains Storage Portal (CFSP) - Central Ground Water Board (CGWB)
India's national groundwater agency — aquifer maps, water level and quality data, resource assessments, and reports on a critical water resource
Data source WaterAgriculture India
Go straight to Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) - Centre for Economic Data and Analysis
Ashoka University research center providing open socio-economic data tools, mandi prices, enterprise trackers, and policy analysis
Organisation EconomyAgriculture India
Go straight to Centre for Economic Data and Analysis - Centre for Environment Concerns
Water-soil-climate innovations and resilient farming systems for drought-prone regions.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh
Go straight to Centre for Environment Concerns - CHIRPS Rainfall Data
High-resolution rainfall estimates combining satellite observations and gauge data — 40+ years of quasi-global precipitation at 0.05°, updated daily
Data source ClimateAgriculture Global, India
Go straight to CHIRPS Rainfall Data - Copernicus Browser
ESA's visual browser for Sentinel satellite imagery — optical, radar, and atmospheric data from the Copernicus constellation, with on-the-fly visualisation
Data source LandEnvironment Global, India
Go straight to Copernicus Browser - DHAN Foundation
Development organisation revitalising traditional tank cascade irrigation systems and building community-owned microfinance institutions in South India
Organisation WaterAgriculture Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, India
Go straight to DHAN Foundation - env.wiki
Directory of organisations working on environment and sustainability across India, sorted into some thirty-six categories
Directory EnvironmentClimate India
Go straight to env.wiki - ERA5-Land
Enhanced-resolution land-surface reanalysis — temperature, rainfall, soil moisture, and evaporation at 9 km, from 1950 to near-present, complementary to ERA5
Data source ClimateLand Global, India
Go straight to ERA5-Land - FAO flagship publications
FAO flagship series on food systems, fisheries, climate resilience and market outlooks for food security work
Publication AgricultureClimate Global, India
Go straight to FAO flagship publications - FAOSTAT
FAO's food and agriculture statistics — production, trade, land use, food balance sheets and emissions, by country since 1961
Data source AgricultureNutrition Global, India
Go straight to FAOSTAT - Farmers for Forests
Carbon-financed agroforestry and biodiversity restoration with smallholder farmers.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Maharashtra
Go straight to Farmers for Forests - FPOhub
Resource and discussion hub for building farmer producer organisations, rural livelihoods and sustainable agricultural markets
Community AgricultureLabour India
Go straight to FPOhub - Global Drought Observatory
The EU's global drought monitoring system — precipitation, soil moisture, vegetation stress, and drought risk indices updated every 10 days at 0.1° resolution
Dashboard ClimateDisasters Global, India
Go straight to Global Drought Observatory - Global Report on Food Crises
FAO’s flagship annual assessment of hunger, food insecurity and climate-related food system stress
Publication AgricultureNutrition Global, India
Go straight to Global Report on Food Crises - Google Agricultural Understanding Platform
Google platform using satellite imagery and ML to delineate farm field boundaries and monitor crop seasons at individual field level
Data source AgricultureTechnology Global, India
Go straight to Google Agricultural Understanding Platform - Google Earth Engine Data Catalog
Google's multi-petabyte catalog of geospatial datasets — satellite imagery, climate, terrain, land cover, and population data — queryable at planetary scale
Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India
Go straight to Google Earth Engine Data Catalog - GOONJ
Turning underused urban material into a rural development resource with dignity.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India
Go straight to GOONJ - Gram Vikas
Water conservation and afforestation for rural development, with a distinctive all-or-none community model.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Odisha, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh
Go straight to Gram Vikas - The Grove
Rainmatter-hosted forum for afforestation, agroforestry, and climate work through practitioner discussions.
Community EnvironmentClimate India
Go straight to The Grove - India Data Portal
Indian public datasets cleaned and standardised for research — agriculture, finance, elections, health and education, from ISB's Bharti Institute
Data source AgricultureEconomy India
Go straight to India Data Portal - India Water Portal
Two decades of reporting, research and district-level rainfall data on Indian water, sanitation and groundwater
Publication WaterEnvironment India
Go straight to India Water Portal - India-WRIS
Water resources information system — rainfall, reservoir levels, groundwater, river flows and water quality across India
Data source WaterAgriculture India
Go straight to India-WRIS - IndusTree
Sustainable livelihoods in creative manufacturing and regenerative value chains.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal
Go straight to IndusTree - Jagriti Seva Sansthan
Building India through enterprise in Middle India, running the iconic Jagriti Yatra train journey.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar
Go straight to Jagriti Seva Sansthan - Labour Bureau Wage Rate Index
Rural and urban wage rates for 46 agricultural and non-agricultural occupations, collected monthly from 600 villages and published as wage rate indices
Data source LabourAgriculture India
Go straight to Labour Bureau Wage Rate Index - Landsat Data Access (USGS)
Decades of free satellite imagery from the Landsat programme — the longest continuous Earth observation record, essential for studying change over time
Data source LandEnvironment Global, India
Go straight to Landsat Data Access (USGS) - Lipok Social Foundation
Improving farmer livelihoods in Marathwada and Vidarbha.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Maharashtra
Go straight to Lipok Social Foundation - MGNREGA Public Data
Job cards, works, muster rolls and payments for India's rural employment guarantee, published down to panchayat level
Dashboard WelfareLabour India
Go straight to MGNREGA Public Data - NASA FIRMS
Satellite-detected fires and thermal anomalies in near-real-time — the standard source for tracking forest fires, crop burning, and industrial hotspots
Dashboard EnvironmentClimate Global, India
Go straight to NASA FIRMS - NASA POWER
NASA's solar and meteorological data — daily temperature, precipitation, radiation, wind, and humidity from 1981, for renewable energy and agriculture
Data source ClimateEnergy Global, India
Go straight to NASA POWER - National Council of Applied Economic Research
India's oldest independent economic policy think tank, known for national household surveys, macroeconomic forecasting, and industrial studies
Organisation EconomyDemography India
Go straight to National Council of Applied Economic Research - Navadarshanam
Rural charitable trust and community exploring ecological approaches to food, farming, energy, water, buildings and waste
Organisation EnvironmentAgriculture India, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka
Go straight to Navadarshanam - ODK (Open Data Kit)
The open-source foundation for mobile data collection — build forms, collect offline on Android, and manage submissions, used by field teams worldwide
Tool TechnologyHealth Global, India
Go straight to ODK (Open Data Kit) - Open-Meteo
Free open-source weather API — forecasts and historical weather from 1940 using the best global models, with no API key or registration required
Data source ClimateDisasters Global, India
Go straight to Open-Meteo - Organic Mandya
Empowering rural communities towards self-sufficiency through organic farming and farmer-consumer networks.
Organisation CitiesGovernance India, Karnataka
Go straight to Organic Mandya - Paani Foundation
Community-led water conservation and climate-resilient rural livelihoods focused on drought-prone Maharashtra.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Maharashtra
Go straight to Paani Foundation - People's Archive of Rural India
A living archive of rural Indian life — reporting, photographs, oral histories and video, in more than a dozen languages
Archive AgricultureCaste India
Go straight to People's Archive of Rural India - PM-KISAN
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi — farmer income support dashboard tracking beneficiaries, payments, and state-wise coverage for 110M+ farmer families
Dashboard AgricultureWelfare India
Go straight to PM-KISAN - RCRC
Rights-based natural resource governance, climate justice, and resilient rural livelihoods.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh
Go straight to RCRC - Sahaja Samrudha
Organic farmers' movement conserving indigenous crop diversity through seed networks, community banks and participatory research
Organisation AgricultureEnvironment India, Karnataka
Go straight to Sahaja Samrudha - Sarjapura Curries
Food biodiversity, local greens, and community storytelling rooted in regional food systems.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Karnataka
Go straight to Sarjapura Curries - Sauramandala Foundation
Social and economic change for remote and inaccessible communities through collaborative action.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Meghalaya
Go straight to Sauramandala Foundation - Shivganga Gram Vikas
Rural development in tribal areas through water conservation.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Madhya Pradesh
Go straight to Shivganga Gram Vikas - State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World
FAO's annual flagship on hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity trends with country-level comparisons and outlook for policy
Publication AgricultureHealth Global, India
Go straight to State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World - SwaYYam
Permaculture and agroecology collective regenerating degraded farmland through farmer collectives, tree-planting, and food sovereignty.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Karnataka
Go straight to SwaYYam - The Timbaktu Collective
Grassroots regeneration of drought-prone landscapes through cooperatives, organic farming, and local economies.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Andhra Pradesh
Go straight to The Timbaktu Collective - Transform Rural India Foundation
Community-first rural development spanning health, nutrition, education, farm prosperity, and local governance across eight states.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh
Go straight to Transform Rural India Foundation - UPAG
Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics — crop area, production, yield and price data brought into one place
Data source AgricultureEconomy India
Go straight to UPAG - Vaagdhara
Farming sovereignty, child protection, and democracy in tribal regions.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat
Go straight to Vaagdhara - Vanastree
Women-run Western Ghats collective conserving traditional seeds, forest-garden biodiversity and small-scale food systems
Organisation AgricultureGender India, Karnataka
Go straight to Vanastree - WASSAN
Ecological security for rainfed areas and poorer communities.
Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan
Go straight to WASSAN - Watershed Organisation Trust
Non-profit research and development organisation pioneering participatory watershed management, climate adaptation, and water budgeting in rural India
Organisation WaterAgriculture India
Go straight to Watershed Organisation Trust - WorldClim
Global gridded climate data — monthly temperature, precipitation, and 19 bioclimatic variables for past, present, and future conditions
Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India
Go straight to WorldClim