agropedia is an agriculture knowledge repository of universal meta models and localised content for a variety of users with appropriate interfaces built in collaborative mode in multiple languages. In other words, it aspires to be a one stop shop for any knowledge, pedagogic or practical related to Indian agriculture - an audiovisual encyclopaedia, to enhance, educate and transform the process of digital content creation and organisation completely. It aims to develop a comprehensive digital content framework, platform, and tools in support of agricultural extension and outreach.
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Mobile technology offers a smart way to support rural agricultural development by providing information direct to farmers. To farmers who do not have physical or financial access to information through current extension services, mobile phones and applications can act as a conduit for locally relevant information. If the support package is right, there are huge opportunities for improvements in agricultural productivity, livelihood resilience and future food security. Increases in agricultural production benefit both the local farmer and helps food supply keep pace with population growth. Agricultural support services assist farmers in adapting to climate change with new cultivation techniques, follow market prices and understand prevailing weather conditions. But through traditional extension services this information is slow to permeate. In Uganda there is just one extension officer for 46,000 farmers. Read more>>>> |
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Small cultivators will gain little from the Rs 575,000-crore credit largesse; companies and big farmers benefit the most.. One should not look a gift horse in the mouth, specially when it looks like a powerful stallion that can run a long race. That’s what Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s generous line of credit to farmers in this budget appears to be—a gift that can carry the country’s debt-ridden farmers over the worst humps of their risk-prone lives. Agricultural credit will now be a colossal Rs 575,000 crore for 2012-13, an increase of Rs 100,000 crore over the target set for the current year. As the minister noted sententiously, “Farmers need timely access to affordable credit.” Read more >>>>> |
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This knowledge paper outlines the potential mechanisms through which ICT could facilitate agricultural adoption and the provision of extension services in development countries. It then review current programs using ICT for agriculture in developing countries, focusing on the mechanism of providing information (voice, SMS, internet and mobile money) and the types of services provided. It also identify potential constraints to such programs in terms of design and implementation, and conclude with some recommendations for implementing field-based research on the impact of these new programs on farmers’ knowledge, technological adoption and welfare in developing countries. More >>>>> |
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Since 1997 Dr Debal Deb has been conserving 700 varieties of native rice that seed companies are trying to drive out. Every year since 1997, Dr Debal Deb has sown the 700 varieties of folk rice seeds in his collection, in order that they may not be erased from India's heritage. He has collected these strains from humble farming folk in eastern India, whom the Green Revolution has mercifully passed by. Not able to afford the external inputs required for the misnamed high yielding variety [HYV: how tellingly, scarily akin to HIV this acronym is!], these marginal farmers had stuck to heirloom seeds handed down by their ancestors. These seeds are notable for their hardiness, aroma and nutritional value. Each differs subtly but distinctively from the other, and all of them, in a fair assessment of yield that factors in environmental, monetary and labour costs, can unmask seed companies' claims of 'high-yield' for their products. Read more >>>>> |
The e-Agriculture Community launched a new online platform on 16th December 2010. The launch is in conjunction with the ICTD2010 conference, where a special half day session on enhancing the impact of ICT in rural development has been organized by FAO and other partners in the e-Agriculture Community.
After three years of exciting growth, collaboration and knowledge sharing around ICT for rural development, this new platform has been developed to keep pace with the needs of the e-Agriculture Community in the coming years, which to date numbers to more than 7,000 members. |
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