Bharat-VISTAAR
Agriculture & AgriTech
India's national Agri AI DPI built for the Ministry of Agriculture. 1.2M+ farmer interactions in month one, 3 states onboarded in 3 weeks. Announced in Union Budget 2026-27.
Bharat-VISTAAR is India's national agricultural digital public infrastructure (Agri DPI), built by Kenpath in partnership with IIIT Bangalore and the EkStep Foundation for the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, Govt. of India. Launched by the Union Agriculture Minister in Jaipur and announced in Union Budget 2026-27 with a Rs 150 crore allocation, the platform delivers real-time crop intelligence, weather, mandi prices, scheme information and grievance redressal to 120 million farming households across India in 20+ languages.
Key capabilities
Population-scale DPI
Engineered from day one to serve hundreds of millions of farmers across India's linguistic, geographic and agricultural diversity.
Network-of-networks architecture
Diverse states and union territories plug into a common national backbone while preserving local context, languages and farming practices.
Foundational Agri AI models
AI models trained on India's full agricultural diversity — crop varieties, soil zones, pest patterns and regional farming practices across all states.
Voice-first multilingual access
Farmers reach the AI assistant 'Bharati' via helpline 155261 — accessible via simple phone call in 20+ Indian languages.
A federated national backbone built for decades of scale
Bharat-VISTAAR is architected as a federated digital public infrastructure connecting the central Ministry of Agriculture with all state agricultural systems. Built on the Vistaar Protocol and India's National Agri Stack, each state plugs into a common backbone while retaining autonomy over local data, language and advisory content. Foundational AI models fine-tuned on Indian agricultural data power the intelligence layer, with interoperability across AgriStack, state portals, Amul AI and MahaVISTAAR.
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Kenpath's role
Kenpath partnered with IIIT Bangalore and the EkStep Foundation to build Bharat-VISTAAR as India's national Agri AI DPI for the Ministry of Agriculture. Kenpath designed the federated architecture, built the foundational Agri AI models, developed the voice-first AI assistant 'Bharati', and integrated the platform with AgriStack and state-level systems. The team worked directly with ministry officials and ecosystem partners to ensure the platform is scalable, trustworthy and ready to serve 120 million farmers.