Agriculture remains the backbone of India's economy, employing nearly half of the workforce and contributing approximately 18% to the national GDP. Despite significant technological advancements in recent decades, small and marginal farmers—who collectively comprise over 85% of the farming community—continue to struggle with accessing modern mechanization solutions due to prohibitively high ownership costs and fragmented landholdings. This paper presents AgriConnect, an innovative digital marketplace developed using the MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) stack, which introduces a tokenized peer-to-peer (P2P) model for renting, leasing, and sharing agricultural machinery. The proposed system enhances transaction transparency through digital tokens, ensuring secure and traceable transactions while integrating comprehensive crop analytics for data-driven agricultural decisions. AgriConnect addresses critical gaps in current agricultural infrastructure by promoting sustainable mechanization, improving farm efficiency, reducing machinery idle time from 45% to 15%, and aligning with India's Digital Agriculture Mission 2021-2026. The platform has demonstrated 90% user satisfaction rates in pilot evaluations with real farming communities, achieving sub- 200 millisecond latency for critical transactions. Keywords: Agricultural Digitalization, P2P Marketplace, Token-Based Transactions, MERN Stack, Crop Analytics, Digital Agriculture, Farm Mechanization
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