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Agriculture is the main occupation of the people, contributes 15.4% to the state's GDP, and is a major source of income and employment in the rural areas. The development of agrarian sector always depends on the farmer's active participation in adopting scientific methods of technology, fertile land, availability of basic inputs, finance, favourable weather conditions, marketing information on real time and simultaneously pro-active policies and initiatives from the government side are the essential pre-conditions required for the attainment of real development. But while delivering public services in the farming sector, in the organization mechanism itself, we found problems like corruption, red-tapism, delay, inefficiency, lack of transparency and accountability, reasoning that 100% achievement cannot be achieved in the farming sector. However, the ICT-based public services will resolve all these obstacles due to their qualitative features, such as efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, accountability, and responsiveness, bringing out the grassroots level upliftment of farmers. In this respect, this paper analyzes the impact of E-governance initiatives on agricultural development focus on the production area, major E-governance initiatives of the Karnataka government, and issues and challenges while delivering public services to the farmers in rural areas.