2. • Agricultural practices and advancements
differ globally—since plants have their own
differences and the location plays a role on
their development as well.
• But through the exchange of knowledge from
different agriculturally-involved individuals
from all over the world, improvement of
techniques can be experienced as well.
3. • IT has become a bridge for people from all
over the world
• Agriculture in India is the core sector for
food security, nutritional security, and
sustainable development & for poverty
alleviation.
4. • IT supports new methods for precision
agriculture like computerized farm machinery
that applies for fertilizers and pesticides.
• Farm animals are fed and monitored by
electronic sensors and identification systems.
• Selling or buying online began to become
popular in the world.
6. Projects Undertaken By Central Govt
• Department of Agriculture and Co-operation’s
National Agriculture Technology Project.
• AGMARKNET
• Community Information Centres
• Warana Wired Village Project of
Maharashtra: Application of satellite
communication for training field extension
workers in rural areas.
9. NGO’s and other private sector
organization projects
• Information Village Research Project in
Pondicherry
• Agriwatch.com
• Drishti.com
• VOICES by Madhyam Communications
11. • The FRIENDS project has been implemented
by the Information Technology Department,
Government of Kerala in collaboration with
various departments like the Kerala State
Electricity Board, Kerala Water Authority
etc. in the year 2000.
• It is a "Single Window Scheme" in which the
consumer is given the option of paying for the
common services rendered to him under a
single roof.
12. • Friends Janasevanakendram – an acronym for
Fast, Reliable, Instant, Efficient Network for
Disbursement of Services – is a multiple
agency bill collection system, where
customers can remit bills including that of
telephone, power, water, vehicle registration
and taxes.
14. • aAQUA, (almost All QUestions Answered), is
an online question answering website providing
farm and veterinary advisory services to
farmers over phone or internet.
• aAQUA has been operational since Dec 2003
and has seen over 37000 postings in about
14000 questions. It has about 20,000
registered members from across 450
districts in India.
15.
16. Functions :
• to provide fast access to reliable agri
information (both through artificial agents
and human experts from all over the world)
• to support voice over phones, video over
tablets and any affordable devices that can
diffuse to the largest number of farmers
• to provide a searchable agri knowledge
database
• to support all Indian languages
• to accommodate new users
18. • Village Knowledge Centres serve as
information dissemination centre providing
instant access to farmers to latest
information/ knowledge available in the field
of agriculture, starting from crop production
to marketing.
• Presently, we have more than 211 VKCs across
the country.
21. • Launched in June 2000, ITC e-Choupal has
already become the largest initiative among
all Internet-based interventions in rural
India. Its services today reach out to over 4
million farmers
• range of crops - Soybean, Wheat, Rice,
Maize, Coffee, Marine Products and Fruits
• in over 35000 villages through 6100 kiosks
across 10 states.
22. • e-Choupal is an initiative of ITC Limited, a
conglomerate in India, to link directly with
rural farmers via the Internet for
procurement of agricultural
and aquaculture products like soybeans,
wheat, coffee, and prawns.
• The serviced are provided through this web
portal WWW.e-Choupal.com in different
languages. It also facilities supply of high
quality farm inputs as well as purchase
doorstep thereby saving them time and
transportation costs.
23. • e-Choupal is a Hindi word which means “village
meeting place”.
• Market is meeting place where sellers/
customers come together to do the
transactions.
• The is a virtual market place where farmers
can do the transaction, facilitated by an
internet linked computer, directly with a
purchaser and can realize better price for
their produce.
24.
25. • The e-Choupal is a unique web-based initiative
of ITC Limited [a large multi business
conglomerate in India] offering farmers
required information, products and services
they need to improve farm-gate price
realizations and cut transaction costs.
• Farmers can access latest local and global
information on weather, scientific farming
practices as well as market price at the
village itself.
27. • ICT was brought to this area by the Warana
"Wired Village" project, launched in 1998 as a
collaboration between the National
Informatics Centre (NIC), the Government of
Maharashtra, the Warana Vibhag Shikshan
Mandal (Education Department) and the WGC.
• The project aims at bringing agricultural,
market and educational information to 70
villages around Warana Nagar and intends to
simplify other business operations of the co-
operative.
28. • The project aims in fact at giving villagers
access to information in local language about
crops and agricultural market prices,
employment schemes from the government of
Maharashtra, and educational opportunities.
31. • Agricultural Marketing Information Network
(AGMARKNET) was launched in March 2000
by the Union Ministry of Agriculture.
• This e-governance portal AGMARKNET,
implemented by National Informatics Centre
(NIC), facilitates generation and transmission
of prices, commodity arrival information from
agricultural produce markets, and web-based
dissemination to producers, consumers,
traders, and policy makers transparently and
quickly.
32. • The data transmitted from all the markets is
available on the AGMARKNET portal in 8
regional languages and English.
• It displays Commodity-wise, Variety-wise
daily prices and arrivals information from all
wholesale markets.
• Various types of reports can be viewed
including trend reports for prices and arrivals
for important commodities.
• Currently, about 1,800 markets are connected
and work is in progress for another 700
markets.
34. • It was started by the Government of
India, Reserve Bank of India(RBI), and
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development(NABARD) in 1998-99 to help
farmers access timely and adequate credit.
• The Kisan Credit Card allows farmers to have
cash credit facilities without going through
time-consuming bank credit screening
processes repeatedly.
35. • Repayment can be rescheduled if there is a
bad crop season, and extensions are offered
for up to four years.
• The card is valid for three years and subject
to annual renewals.
• Withdrawals are made using slips, cards, and
a passbook
39. • An expert advisory system and the
farmers needs to call the toll free number
1800-180-1551 to seek expert advice on
different matters related to agriculture and
allied sectors
42. • Here farmer keeps getting SMS messages
providing information or delivering service or
giving advisories on his mobile from experts,
scientists and officers at various level after
once opting for messages on agricultural
practises / crops of his interest.
• In short, messages are customized based on
farmer’s preferences in the language chosen
by them.
43. • The services of the portal include crop
production, including horticulture, animal
husbandry, dairying and fisheries.
• It sends messages relating not only
production aspect but also marketing of
produce, weather forecast, soil testing, etc.
44. Some of the important
websites and portals related
to agriculture
45. www.indiaagristat.com
• It is a comprehensive source for Indian
agriculture statistics which is regularly
updated
• It also provides the agriculture related news.
46. • It provides authentic statistical information
on sectors like
agricultural education,
agricultural export,
agriculture census,
agriculture prices,
agricultural insurance,
animal husbandry,
agricultural marketing,
horticulture production,
agricultural wages and all other relevant
agricultural statistics of India
47. http://www.apeda.com
• APEDA is mandated with the responsibility of
export promotion and development of the
scheduled products like: floriculture, fruits
and vegetables, processed foods, organic
foods, animal products and cereals.
• In addition to this, APEDA is also responsible
to monitor export of some non -scheduled
items such as basmati rice, wheat, and coarse
grains and also import of sugar.
48. http://fert.nic.in
• The website Department of fertilizers, Govt.
of India, gives information on different
aspects of fertilizer.
