Transcript Portal Development - SRS

Govt. of India
Ministry of Agriculture
(Dept. of Agriculture & Co-Operation)
191 – Patliputra Colony, Patna, Bihar – 800 013.
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Purpose
The exercise involves design and development of a Portal for Directorate of
Rice Development, Govt. of India whose head-office is located at Patna,
Bihar. The portal is to help put up the role and responsibilities of the
Directorate of Rice Development on to the web for public viewing.
At the same time, it will also create a new channel for flow of information
across the nation through Internet itself resulting in substantial saving of
typing and re-compilation of work at different stages.
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Existing System
Till date, all aspects of information flow is being managed through different
publications that are brought out by the Directorate from time to time. The
information collection exercise involving offices spread across the nation
catering to the requirements of 534 districts is being routed through
telephone lines and faxes besides postal mail.
To maintain the deadline for submission of various reports, the Directorate
finds itself with little option but to pursue the concerned information
supplying offices through phones and faxes.
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What the Portal will do ?
A web based portal for the Directorate of Rice Development will include a lot
of things and open up an entirely new channel using which the information
can be collected and disseminated. Different roles to be played by this portal
will include -
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Publish and maintain up-to-date information
Supply time bound research & development findings
Provide details of rice varieties
Specify suitability of a specific crop for a specific region
Inform the farmers about different schemes
It will also act as a medium for collecting basic information and generating
reports for the Ministry.
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Key Persons Involved
From the Directorate of Rice Development
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Dr. S. Kori, Director
Dr. M. C. Diwakar, Dy. Director
Shri Ram Kripal, Asstt. Director
Four Senior Technical Assistants
From NIC Bihar State Unit
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Dr. Saurabh Gupta, Technical Director & SIO
Shri Shahid Ahmad, PSA (Project Guide)
Shri Somesh, SSA (Web Developer)
Shri Ashok Kumar Singh, Programmer (Database Developer)
This team will jointly work towards timely development and hosting of
the portal.
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Work Flow Diagram
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE
Dept. of Agriculture & Co-Operation
Crops Division
Directorate of Rice Development
Patna (Bihar)
State Depts. of
Agriculture
State Agricultural
Universities
ICAR Research
Institutes
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Functions of the Directorate
Some of the responsibilities of the Directorate of Rice Development are
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To assist the Dept. of Agriculture & Co-Operation to plan, to co-ordinate and to
monitor the Rice Crop Development Programmes at the national level and
recommend measures to improve Rice Production.
To assist the states/union territories to plan, formulate and implement the Rice
Development Programmes to increase production and productivity.
To interact with national and state institutions in planning the production of rice
seeds.
To liaise with State Agricultural Universities and ICAR Research Institutions for
organizing training courses on improved Cereal Crops Production Technologies.
To have closer interaction/co-ordination with the Directorate of Rice Research,
Central Rice Research Institute and other Regional Research Centres of ICAR and
State Agricultural Universities.
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Functions of the Directorate
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To have closer interaction/co-ordination with the Directorate of Rice Research,
Central Rice Research Institute and other Regional Research Centres of ICAR and
State Agricultural Universities.
To keep in touch with research development activities of Agricultural Universities
and other National and ICAR organizations and maintain the flow of information
and ideas between research and development.
To provide technical support to the Extension Units of the state departments of
agriculture and special orientation training programme on rice production
technology.
To participate in the meetings of the Rice Workshops organized by ICAR and also
Kharif and Rabi Conference organized by the State Dept. of Agriculture.
To watch the performance of newly evolved/released rice varieties.
To monitor and report to the Ministry of Agriculture about the Area Coverage,
Production, Productivity and Weather Conditions during Kharif and Rabi on a
weekly basis.
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Functions of the Directorate
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To report regularly to the Dept. of Agriculture & Co-operation on weather and crop
prospects as well as market and price trends.
To build-up relevant records and data for the rice crop at the district, state and the
national level.
To monitor the distribution and utilization of the funds for Rice Seed Mini-Kit
Demonstration Programme in different rice growing areas in the country.
To organize the National Seminar on Rice Production Management every year.
To monitor all crops in the assigned states, mainly - Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa and submit the weekly reports regarding crop, weather conditions and the
coverage area.
As is apparent, timely management of flow of information is the
strongest issue here and the Portal to be developed will have to keep
this single issue in focus all the time.
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Contents of Portal – #1
 Brief introduction of Directorate of Rice Development.
 Functions and responsibilities of the Directorate.
 Information on Rice Development Schemes like –
• Special Rice Production Programmes (SRPP)
• Special Foodgrains Production Programme (SFPP) – Rice
• Integrated Programme for Rice Development (IRDP)
• Integrated Cereals Development Programme in Rice based Cropping
System Areas (ICDP-RICE)
 Details of High Yielding Rice varieties
… Continued.
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Contents of Portal – #2
 Variety Release Procedure and Seed Release Procedure
 Information on Macro Management Scheme of Agriculture.
 Details of Rice Crops and their suitability to different climatic conditions
across India.
 Rice Productivity Analysis
 Basmati Rice in India and its Export Potential.
 Statistical Analysis of Rice Production across India over the last several
years.
 Research papers on improving rice productivity.
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Contents of Portal – #3
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Rice Growing Seasons and Soils in India.
Methods of Cultivation of Rice.
Rice Eco-Systems and Cropping Pattern.
Utilization of by-products of Rice Milling Industries.
Problems/Constraints to Rice Production.
Strategies to Step-up Rice Productivity.
The above list of items will enrich the web-site for its visitors and to help
the sellers/buyers, there will also be a section reflecting the most up-todate information on minimum support price of rice.
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Contents of Portal – #4
Useful Information and Bulletins :
 Details of Rice Varieties.
 State-wise List of Rice Varieties.
 List of Denotified Rice Varieties.
These bulletins would be updated from time to time to reflect the changes that
take place. The web-site will also include useful information on Training
Programmes on Rice Production Technology at the State-Level. Details of
Special Orientation Training Programmes could also be included.
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Contents of Portal – #5
Incoming And Outgoing Reports :
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Area covered under high-yielding varieties of rice.
Area covered under hybrid-rice.
Area covered under Basmati rice.
District-wise final/revised estimates of area, production and
yield of rice.
Recommended fertilizer dose of NKP per Hectare in Kharif and
Rabi/Summer rice.
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Contents of Portal – #6
Incoming And Outgoing Reports :
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High-yielding varieties of rice.
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Weather-watch Report, Tracing of Crop Condition and different
crops of Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa States.
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Component-wise Physical and Financial Progress Report of
Front-Line Demonstrations.
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Component-wise Physical/Financial Progress Reports of ICDPRICE subsumed under Macro-Management Scheme of
Agriculture.
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Report Management
The Portal will connect to an RDBMS like MS-SQL Server at the back-end
after proper authentication and will have access limited to updation of
records or to fetch data to generate meaningful reports. All
communication between Portal and RDBMS will be handled through
leading edge technology like Active Server pages or ASP.
All reports would now be collected On-Line by the Directorate. The
reporting offices will log-on to specific section of the Portal and type-in
the data that needs to be forwarded on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
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Report Management
Besides on-line collection of the core data, the ASP scripts running on
the Portal will also be responsible for answering queries from authorized
users like State Agencies or the Ministry of Agriculture.
Such users will need nothing more than a web-browser and Internet
connectivity at their end to access the latest reports available with the
Directorate of Rice Development. However, they will need to
establish their credentials using allotted user-id and password in order to
access the Report Section of the proposed Portal.
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On-going Work
Development of Portal for the Directorate of Rice Development has
already been initiated by NIC Bihar State Unit and details pertaining to
notified as well as de-notified rice varieties across the states have
already been published.
The Portal opens with an introduction and it includes background
information along with the Role & Responsibilities of the Directorate of
Rice Development. Development version is temporarily hosted at
http://bihar.bih.nic.in/agriculture on a computer system at NIC Bihar
State Unit. The SRS of this project has also been put up on this portal
as ready reference.
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Network Diagram
Internet
Satellite dish
Laser printer
Web-Server
Portal Development
System
Scanner
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Time-Frame
The Portal is expected to contain information spanning more than 1000
A4-size pages when fully ready. The reports to be collected and
disseminated are equally complex. The resources available with Bihar
State Unit are limited both in terms of web-server and expert manpower
for such an exercise.
Never-the-less, we have set a time-frame of 2 months to reach betatesting of complete Portal. That means by end of April’2003, the Portal
would begin to serve entire set of static information and management of
data through this Portal would have entered testing phase.
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Conclusion
Training of Directorate Personnel on office productivity tools and data
processing applications is already going on at Patna with the help of
RCC, Kolkatta.
Different systems to be installed under this project have begun to arrive
at Patna. Some work related to wiring of these systems so as to form a
LAN is still pending but it should be finished in March’2003 itself. NIC
Bihar State Unit is extending all possible co-operation for smooth
implementation of such a prestigious project.
Thank You !
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