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ICT in Agriculture
For ensuring knowledge connectivity in areas,
relevant to the day-to-day life and livelihood of every families
Vinod Bothale
Director, MRSAC
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Maharashtra Remote Sensing
Applications Centre (MRSAC), Nagpur
Indian Scenario
 Total Geographical Area (TGA) -
329 M.H
 Potential for Biological Production -
265 M.H
 Net Sown Area (NSA) -
143 M.H
 Net Irrigated Area -
56 M.H
 Land degradation  Drought-prone Area
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50% of TGA
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190 M.H
Agriculture is the slowest growing sector in the economy
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Period:
1993-94 to 2000-01
Data Source: CSO
Issues/Challenges in Indian Agriculture
• Large number of marginal farmers (< 1 Ha)
• Inclement climatic conditions- Uncertain crop yields and livelihoods
• Rainfed Agriculture ( 70 % farmers live on monsoon)
• Inadequate agriculture extension services
• Insufficient (spatial/non-spatial) agro-met-enviro-rural
data/information
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Do Maximum with Minimum
Maximum
• Optimum
• Sustainable
Maximum with Minimum
Maximum with Minimum
Minimum
• Technlologies
• IC Technologies
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Thrust areas to meet Challenges….
 Diversification of Agriculture
 Inter-cropping
 Micro Management
 Water Management
 Organic Farming
 Agri-Clinics and Agri-business Centres
 Bio-Technology
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Technologies at behest ….
 Technologies for ON Field
 Technologies for OFF field
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Technologies at behest ….
 Gadgets, WSN, Data collection systems (
Parameters collection, Mapping of facilities, amenities, assets etc)
 Information Systems
 MIS
 Dissemination
 Advisory
 Data Mining
 Data Analysis
 Decision Support
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ICT – Agriculture Needs
 Agro-Meteorology
 Fertilisers and Manure
 Agricultural Marketing
 Fisheries
 Agricultural Engineering & Food
Processing
 Irrigation and Drainage System
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 Livestock, Dairy Development &
Agricultural Extension and Transfer
Animal Husbandry
of Technology
 Rural Development & Planning
Credit and Cooperation
 Soil and Water Management
Crop production & protection
 Watershed Development
Environment & Forest
 Wasteland Development
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Knowledge and Information Needs
1. Farmers need to know
What to grow ?
When to grow ?
How to grow more ?
How to store & preserve ?
When to sell ?
Where to sell ?
What price to sell at ?
Farmers who understand market trends and market opportunities have a
better chance of succeeding than those who do not
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Knowledge and Information Needs contd.
1. Government policy and notices regarding agriculture
2. Usage of fertilizer for higher productivity.
3. Crop Diseases, preventive measures and in case of
disease curative measures.
4. Irrigation details like means, timing, quantum. Information
on water conservation through advanced irrigation
technology like Drip etc
5. HYV seeds: exact know how on usage in terms of
selection, quantity sown per hectare.
6. Education on what needs to be done at the pre-harvest
stage and post harvest stage to ensure productivity and
quality with minimum losses
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Knowledge and Information Needs contd.
7. Advice on crop rotation to maintain soil quality so that the crop
productivity
could be increased and not negatively impacted as
has happened in case of sugarcane in many parts of the
country.
8. Advice on fruits and vegetables because these are perishable in
nature but provide good opportunities for profit due to a great
demand in domestic as well as world markets.
9. Advice on the Vegetable crops to be sown, timing of sowing,
varieties to be used, areas for growing particular crops, irrigation
requirements, preventive measures from diseases, which
pesticide should be used, pesticide usage, storage facilities
available, measures to be adopted for increased keeping quality
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during storage.
ICT VALUE PROMISE
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Initiatives at all fronts
• Government
• India & Other Countries
• NGOs
• Trend and Scale varies
• Private
• Academic
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Challenges in ICT execution..
• User for the developed model / system / tool
• Availability/development of different models for applications
• Integration of Geo-ICT and SN
• Development of real to near real-time DSS
• Integration of spatial Remote Sensing and proximal SN
systems for up-scaling
• Development of Middleware for Agro-Met model
• Extending the developed system at the farmers’ level through
Rural Extension Community
• Agriculture and Environment assessment
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Some Initiatives in India
Computerisation of Land Records (Dept.of Land Resources, Govt of India)
Bhoomi Project in Karnataka : Online Delivery of Land Records
• Gyandoot (Madhya Pradesh)
• e - Choupal
• Lokvani Project in Uttar Pradesh
• Village Knowledge Centres
• Project FRIENDS in Kerala
• Village Resource Centres
• e-Mitra Project in Rajasthan37
• Integrated pest management- Advisory
• eSeva (Andhra Pradesh)
• e-Procurement Projects in India2/1/12
• Agris
• … and lots more
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Automatic Weather Stations (AWS)
•IMD
•ISRO ( Mosdac)
•State specific networks
and other
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COMMON-Sense Net –IISc Bengaluru
•To save water in irrigation,one needs to know the hydric needs of the plant at a
given time,which means knowing its environment with precision.
•As a consequence, monitoring the rural environment for a better use of water
resources has become a crucial challenge, especially in semi-arid developing
countries,which suffer most of water shortage.
•With their low cost,low maintenance and ease of deployment, wirelessSensor
networks emerge as a promising technology that is ideally adapted to such a
problem.
•With the help of sensors communicating with each other wirelessly, it is possible to
build an integrated picture of the field's environment, on which one can apply
crop prediction models that feed a decision-support system for farmers.
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Agro-Sense -IIM Kolkata
•Precision Agriculture Using Sensor Based Wireless Mesh Networks–
IIM Kolkata
Agricultural Sensors, positioning systems for detecting location of sensors,
actuators like sprinklers, foggers, valve-controlled irrigation system
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Geo-ICT & WSN Based Crop Informatics –IIT Mumbai
•Objective of the research is to provide weather based online service on
predicting, estimating the Maize and Rice crop growth/yield and to
determine the crop water requirement
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eSagu –IIIT Hyderabad
•'e Sagu‘ is a web-based personalized agro-advisory system which uses Information
Technology to solve the unscientific agricultural practices.
•Sagu means cultivation in Telugu-local language of Andhra Pradesh, the region in
which the project started.e Sagu means electronic cultivation.
•In e Sagu, rather than visiting the crop in person, the agricultural expert
delivers the expert advice at regular intervals (once in one or two weeks) to each
farm by getting the crop status in the form of digital photographs and other
information.
•During2004-06,through eSagu, agricultural expert advices delivered for about 6000
farms covering six crops
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Robotics
and Bio-fuels
Biofuels are derived from biomass. They differ from fossil fuels in that they are
derived from renewable sources, including crops, animal waste and some forms
of ‘rubbish’.
Bioethanol is the biofuel substitute for petrol (gasoline). It derives from cereal based crops
– mainly wheat in the UK, sugar beet and maize (corn), soybeans and sugarcane in the US
and South America.
Biodiesel is the biofuel substitute for diesel. It derives from oilseed based
crops – mainly oilseed rape (OSR) in the UK, and palmoil in South East Asia.
Biogas is the biofuel substitute for natural gas. It derives from organic waste
materials including animal waste and waste generated from municipal, commercial
and industrial sources through the process of anaerobic digestion. In the UK
biogas can be generated through animal waste, it is also collected from emissions
produced at waste landfill sites.
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Serving ICT…
Counter
Call Center
Internet
E-Mail
Mail
Integrated Facilitation Center
Service/Correspondence/eCommerce
Integrated Backend
Service
Providers
Content Delivery
Suppliers &
Partners
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Kiosk
ICT – Anticipations in Indian scenario……
• Adoption has been slow and uneven
• Economics not well documented
• Information intensive Vis-à-vis embodied
knowledge
• Lab to Land – Effective operationaliztion
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We welcome you …
Thank You
Vinod Bothale, Director,
Maharashtra Remote Sensing Applications Centre
(Dept. of Planning, Govt. of Maharashtra)
VNIT Campus, South Ambazari,
NAGPUR - 440011
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