Department of Agriculture , Government of Sikkim aims at creating a statewide unified farmer database in the name of Sikkim - Agriculture Resource Management System (ARMS) which will help in achieving the below mentioned objectives:

• Provided unified database for scheme delivery
• Registration of the Farmer
• Unique Farmer ID (Kishan Parichai Patra)
• Farms Details, Farmers details
• Co-farmers info including name, Dob, Pan Card No, Identity Card No
• Number of farming lands with geo mapping and area of the land
• The irrigation methods and soil type of individual lands.
• Number of time farming capabilities in a year
• Type of crops & vegetables grown in individual land.
• Max capacity of production of Crops & Vegetables in a calendar year
• Ease in policy formulation and decision making due to availability of consolidated farmer level information at the state level
• Reduction in time, cost and error to estimate the number of beneficiaries for a scheme
• Facilitating centralized mechanism to check eligibility for a particular scheme/ service to ease Farmer authentication with lesser documents requirements to prevent any leakages in the system
• Online beneficiary Tracking : Transparent identification of most desirable beneficiaries and tracking the impacts of benefits accrued
• Providing centralized advisory information to farmers on the state and central scheme
• This Centralized Farmers Database shall be useful for various activities like issuing soil health cards, dissemination of crop advisories to the farmers, precision farming, smart cards for farmers to facilitate e-governance, crop insurance, settlement of compensation- claims, grant of agricultural subsidies, community/village resource centres etc.