Role of ICT in Agriculture: Policy implications

Singh, Surabhi; Ahlawatat, Santosh; Sanwal, Saritaarita

doi:10.13005/ojcst/10.03.20

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“…Through ICT, farmers can be benefited from the sowing to harvesting of the crops. 10 ICT not only provides the potential information but also protects the farmers from rumors and mis-communicated information. 11 Farmers can decide on the crop varieties to sow in their field as per their field conditions, sowing time, harvesting time, intercultural operation to be carried out, safe management of disease and insect, and harvesting time.…”

Section: Decision Support Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…ICT tools strengthen the coordination and collaboration of farming communities with various institutions, non-governmental organizations, and private companies through its wide networking. 10 Farmers can access the information generated by various private sector companies and organizations working in the required field. The farmers receive information on weather forecasting and market information.…”

Section: Strengthen the Coordination And Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A review article on role of information and communication technology in agriculture and factors affecting its dissemination in Nepal

Bhusal¹,

GC²,

Khatri³

2021

JABB

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The information and communication technology (ICT) is vital for the farming communities to intensify agricultural development in Nepal. This review presents the research in ICT highlighting the role of ICT in the agriculture sector and various factors affecting the dissemination process. About 60.4% of the total population is dependent on agriculture in Nepal. However, due to lack of awareness and higher cost of technology, the smallholder’s farmers are deprived of receiving the reliable and recent information on agriculture resulting in reduction in crop production and productivity. In order to strengthen the existing extension system, it is important to minimize the cost of the technology transfer process and make people aware of the effective use of technologies. The knowledge on the new and innovative ideas need to be easily disseminated to the youth groups as they are using smart mobile phones and can easily receive the information. Furthermore, the review reveals that there is an urgent need to disseminate simple and compatible agricultural information to reduce the farming risk and maximize farm benefits

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Section: Decision Support Toolmentioning

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Section: Strengthen the Coordination And Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review article on role of information and communication technology in agriculture and factors affecting its dissemination in Nepal

Bhusal¹,

GC²,

Khatri³

2021

JABB

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“…High throughput phenotyping and genotyping approaches such as genome wide association studies (GWAS) and genotyping by sequencing (GBS) can be exploited to tap all the available diversity contributing towards heat tolerance [110][111][112]. With the advancements in genome editing techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 and TILLING, the crop improvement for heat tolerance can be accelerated [113,114].…”

Section: Heat Tolerant Rice Varietiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Abiotic Stress Tolerance-Progress and Pathways of Sustainable Rice Production

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Rice is globally a major food crop and its production has progressively been affected by various types of abiotic stresses especially drought, flooding, salinity, heat and cold in most of the cultivable rice ecosystems. The incidence, intensity and duration of these stresses are anticipated to aggravate due to climate change consequences, demanding resilient yields in these situations to be essential. Present paper deals with reviewing various types of abiotic stresses and their mitigation strategies for enhancing and stabilizing rice production in stress prone areas. Review of available literature pertaining to the study area has been used as research methodology for this paper. The available literature suggests that stress-tolerant varieties can serve as the most viable strategy to contribute in coping with the problem of abiotic stresses. Although, good progress has been made in the development of stress-tolerant rice varieties (STRVs) and incessant efforts are being made to spread these varieties in target areas, adoption by farmers is yet to meet expectations. Advantage, affordability, awareness and availability are the main factors responsible for adopting of any technology. The adoption of stress-tolerant varieties has not reached its potential, predominantly due to the lack of awareness and non-availability of seeds amongst farmers. Strategic and intentional collaborations should be ensured for scaling the sustainable delivery and diffusion of STRVs. A promotional roadmap that ensures the linkages between private and public seed sectors remains the key factor for its successful adoption. Similarly, strengthening of formal, informal and semi-formal seed systems is crucial to accelerate the dissemination of these varieties. There is an imperative need to create strategic plans for the development of varieties possessing multiple stress tolerance. Significant investments for sustainability of rice production in stress prone areas form the essential component of long-term agricultural development. The sooner these investments and strategies are accomplished, the greater the gains are expected.

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“…Dissemination of information on free of cost through toll free no (1800 4253141) which is directed towards registered farmers may generate more acceptance of the advisories sent. Reviews reveal that still the utilization pattern of mobile phone information is not upto the mark expected [3,4,5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Annapurna Krishi Prasara Seva- An Innovative Mobile Based Agro Advisory Service to Mahabubnagar Farmers

Archana¹,

Sridhar²,

Babu³

2020

CJAST

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The present study entitled “Annapurna Krishi Prasara Seva- an innovative mobile based agro advisory service in Mahabubnagar Districts of Telangana” was carried out to get the feedback of farmers about the services rendered through Interactive Information Dissemination System (IIDS) in the year 2019-20. Random sampling methods followed for drawing a total sample size of ninety farmers from the district. Responses obtained through Pre-tested structured interview schedule was further tabulated and analysed with the help of suitable statistical tools and techniques viz. frequency, percentage, mean and rank order. The findings of the study revealed that 94.44 per cent of the respondents gave priority to pest and disease management and 86.67 per cent of the respondents agreed that IIDS service is providing the farmers with timely information. It will be a good monitoring tool to the scientists of DAATTCs to monitor the farmer’s field and it will be a good knowledge management system for knowledge providers and policy makers.

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Role of ICT in Agriculture: Policy implications

Cited by 20 publications

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A review article on role of information and communication technology in agriculture and factors affecting its dissemination in Nepal

A review article on role of information and communication technology in agriculture and factors affecting its dissemination in Nepal

Abiotic Stress Tolerance-Progress and Pathways of Sustainable Rice Production

Annapurna Krishi Prasara Seva- An Innovative Mobile Based Agro Advisory Service to Mahabubnagar Farmers

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