An Approach for Common Web GIS Platform for Agriculture Sector Modernization in Sri Lanka

The status of innovative technology adoption in the Sri Lankan agriculture sector is significantly low. A detailed study conducted by the Department of Agriculture, Sri Lanka and TRCSL, with the assistance of FAO – UN, clearly identified the need for a common platform to manage all stakeholders in an integrated single platform. There have been some attempts by the private and government sectors to overcome the identified gap, but these have yet to produce results. Th is research identified the technology and services gaps and introduced a Cloud-based Microservice Architecture-based Geographical Information Management Platform, "AgriMIS", to manage the country's entire agricultural sector in a single platform. The AgriMIS platform was develope d so that preloaded spatial layers such as administration boundaries, census data, land use data, disaster data, and many more are preloaded and available to the public. Privately owned data such as farmer, farm, land use, fertilizer usage, crops and other relevant details are hosted privately on the same cloud with multitenant access where only that particular data owner can access the data, and this allows the users to access public data hosted on the cloud and conduct a significant number of spatial and nonspatial analyses with the given user interfaces. Also, the platform allows users to connect their existing decision support systems through APIs to the AgriMIS platform. The platform has been assessed and proved to be successful.