Use of ICT in Agriculture

Use of ICT in Agriculture

5003 2 Agricultural Service

98288-40302 info@ictagrisgnr.org www.ictagrisgnr.org.in

Agricultural Research Station, Sri Ganganagar, India - 335001

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About Use of ICT in Agriculture in Agricultural Research Station, Sri Ganganagar

Information has become an important input in ever-increasing knowledge intensive agriculture. Information is more critical for the small holder and resource poor farmer and agri-producer which had been facing challenges posed by income generation with limited resources. The information needs of the farmers are changing rapidly due to introduction of hi-technology in this sector and also due do global environmental and economical changes. Now they need very critical information for running their farm business activities efficiently than ever before. Newly emerged dimensions- agricultural research-extension-farmer-marketing continuum and increasing relevance to value chain-wise learning by multiple players in agricultural sector which demand knowledge driven agricultural advisory services to its stakeholders. Further, the State extension machinery which is conventionally mandated to provide necessary information support to farming community often fails due to a variety of inherent problems in addition to ever- increasing technology needs of the farmers/stakeholders. The potential of ICTs is significant in bridging the gap between farmer’s needs of information and what have with research institutes/scientists. The ICTs through highly targeted and location specific, desired information could be delivered by using ICTs-enabled services. It led to improved agricultural advisory services in a cost effective manner. From last decade, ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in agriculture is an emerging field focusing on the enhancement of agriculture and rural development in India. The advancements in ICTs can be utilized for providing accurate, timely and relevant information and services to the farmers, thereby facilitating an environment for more remunerative agriculture. ICTs are significant in making agricultural research for development of more inclusive through highly targeted and location specific production technologies. They provide regular flow of need based information related to agriculture and farm enterprises enables the farming community to increase their productivity.
There is a need to manage knowledge to facilitate equality of access and promote public trust, optimize knowledge sharing and reuse, and reduce duplication, in accordance with legal and policy obligations within extension organizations. Ensuring that knowledge created, acquired, or maintained to meet programme, policy and accountability requirements in extension organizations is important. It is important to managing knowledge (regardless of its medium or format) to ensure its authenticity, accuracy, integrity, clarity and completeness for National Agricultural Research Extension Systems. Of late, organizations in agriculture realized the importance of managing the Knowledge (Implicit & Explicit; Internal & External) for the dissemination purposes. Substantial review has been made by Shaik N. Meera (2008) on opportunities provided by ICTs which have formed the basis for the recent knowledge management strategies. In the changing scenarios and shifting paradigms, the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) of the world are harnessing the power of ICTs and Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) wishes to be the leader for promoting the initiatives of harnessing the ICTs by developing national level, multi-dimensional, multi stakeholder and hierarchical knowledge management portals for agriculture as a whole. There is a need to transform the way agricultural knowledge sharing is looked at in the recent past, incorporating new ICTs and Knowledge Management practices. In the high-tech sector as well as consulting firms, the stakes are particularly high because knowledge is considered as “the only meaningful economic resources” (Choo, 1998). Private sector organizations are not the only ones which are embracing KM. The systematic sharing of knowledge is assuming a larger role in all kinds of organization around the world in agriculture and hence extension is not an exception (Luen & Al-Hawamdeh, 2001). In India, there is an urgent and strong need to adapt the KM strategies in agriculture. In line with RKMP, there is a need to upscale KM initiatives in agriculture. Relevant human resources, tools, processes, strategies should be in place in ICAR. This will make ICAR a learning organization that transforms rural India, a knowledge society. Frameworks and success stories of KM world wide need to be analyzed to prepare a road map for “KM in Agriculture”.

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