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Agricultural Informatics & Communication Perspective and Prospective
Agricultural Informatics & Communication Perspective and Prospective
M.V.S. Sarma
Agricultural Informatics Division National Informatics Centre Department of Information Technology
Indian Agriculture
Agriculture Sector is changing the socio-economic environments of the population due to liberalization and globalization
About 75% people are living in rural areas and are still dependent on Agriculture. About 43% of Indias geographical area is used for agricultural activity
Agriculture continues to play a major role in Indian Economy
Indian Agriculture
Provides about 65% of the livelihood Accounts for 27% of GDP Contributes 21% of Total Exports, and Supplies Raw materials to Industries Growth Rate in production - 5.7% Food grains production 211.17 mt
Total Area Irrigated Area Population Economically Active population Total Cereals Wheat Rice Coarse grains Total Pulses Oil Seeds Fruits and Vegetables Implements (Tractors) Milk Live Stock (castles, Buffaloes)
Seventh First Second Second Third Second Second Fourth First Second Second Third First First
Agricultural Resources
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 Area threatened by land degradation - 50% of T GA Drought-prone Area - 190 M.H
Reports
Agriculture Credit, Cooperation and Crop Horticulture Development including Spices Aromatic and Medicinal Plants and Plantation Crops Agriculture Infrastructure/Warehousing/Rural Godowns/Marketing/Post Harvest Management, Processing and Cold Storage, Trade and Export Promotion. Crop Husbandry, Demand and Supply Projections and Agricultural Inputs Agriculture Research and Education Animal Husbandry & Dairying Agriculture Statistics Watershed Development, Rainfed Farming and Natural Resources Management |Agriculture Development in Eastern and North-Eastern India Agriculture and Allied Sectors Organic and Biodynamic Farming (for further details www.planningcommission.nic.in)
Ministry of Agriculture
Resource Information
Mach.
Exten. DM
IRS
Attached/subordinate offices
FARMER
ICAR Institutes
DACNET
DAC Portals
AGRISNET
ARISNET
AgRIS
IT apparatus in DAC Hqrs. IT apparatus in the Field offices and Directorates of DAC (DACNET) Phase II Development of Agricultural Informatics and Communication Agricultural Resources Information System IT apparatus for States/UTs (AGRISNET) and Agricultural Marketing Information Network (AGMARKNET) Phase II
E-Commerce Applications
Agri-Business (Agri-clinics and Agri-Business Centres) Agricultural Marketing Agricultural Trade Cooperatives Horticulture
(horticulture, floriculture, sericulture, aquaculture etc,. )
AGRISNET AgRIS (Resources Information System) Development of Agricultural Informatics DACNET (phase II) AGMARKNET (Phase II) Agricultural Census 2000-2001
APHNET (Animal Production and Health Informatics Network) ARISNET (Agricultural Research and Information System) Water Resources Informatics System APEDA NPRE etc.,
A High Speed LAN established with more than 500 nodes (round the clock services) INTRANET/INTERNET applications are being implemented as part of e-Government Regular use of VC for scheme monitoring and plans (X Five Year Plan proposals were discussed on VC with all States) 7/24 Services provided during Orissa Super cyclone, Gujarat Earth Quake, drought mitigation Implementations of Minimum Agenda of egovernance
Portals developed
AGMARKNET DACNET CIB/RC (PPIN) VISTARNET* Agricultural Census*
* Under development
DACNET
A Scheme for bringing E-Governance in the Directorates and Field Units of Department of Agriculture & Cooperation (DAC)
With a Mandate to Establish Functional Hardware/software tools Provide training Develop Application Software Assist in further system enhancement, if required Establish LAN / Network / Internet Service
Directorates databases
Marketing Census Coop. Credit Hort Plan-Co TMOP SWC PP RFS Crops PPQ Mach. Exten. NDM
Fert
IC&Trade
Field Offices
Central Databases
AGRISNET envisages
AGRISNET A NICNET Based Agricultural Informatics & Communication to facilitate Higher Sustainable Agricultural productivity and Establish Indian Agriculture on-line in the Country Convergence of Core Technologies and e-Governance
AGRISNET envisages
IT Infrastructure (H/W, S/W tools and Networking) Information Networks (Web sites, portals, Vertical portals) Data Warehousing (Database, Data Mining and Mata Data) Web enabled applications GIS/RS based applications IT Empowerment (HRD)
AGRISNET components
Internet/Intranet services E-Commerce & EDI Services National & International Video Conferencing Networking (LAN, MAN, WAN) using terrestrial, Satellite, & Wireless Communication
AGRISNET components
IT Training Data Base, Knowledge Base, and Analytical Model Base development for Decision Support Disaster management
To strengthen these sub-networks, AGRISNET nodes will be established at National, State, District, and Block level with Internet/Intranet gateway at National and regional level. Agri-Clinic and Agri-business centres will be set up outside the Government set up to facilitate Un-employed agricultural graduates to generate income and employment through Knowledge services for farmers. The emerging technologies on last mile problems provide required technology solutions to establish Agri-clinic and Agri-business centres at sub district level
DACNET
Workgroups
Mail Server
INTRADAC
Internet Server
Finance Div.
NRM Division
Database Server
Crops Division
GIS Server
Agriculture On-line
Arid Agro-Ecosystem, Coastal AgroEcosystem, Hill & Mountain AgroEcosystem, Irrigated Agro-Ecosystem, and Rainfed Agro-Ecosystem. The pilot project demonstration, one district each with various typologies (13) using GIS/RS based Technology
In e-Governance, electronic means support and stimulate good governance. E-Governance will mature according to the following four phases (Garter Report)
Information Presence : Websites
Interaction
Intake Process: e-mail, search engines, download forms and documents Transaction Complete Transactions: Network and Information Security Transformation Integration and Change: Virtual counter
e-Governance Imperatives
Service related
Service related
Implementation Related
Population and Food grains Needs - The population as per latest census (2001-02), the estimated population is 1033.5 million
- Requirement of food grains for Human consumption is 174 m t (NIN, Hyderabad) and production requirement is 195 mt Therefore, our production is expected to be higher than the requirement calculated on normative method
We have 26 per cent population below poverty who have poor economic access to food grains. Their low purchasing power may not permit them to purchase 182.5 kg per capita per annum. If they can purchase only 70 per cent of their requirements, this would imply availability of additional 15 mt in the market - Food Corporation has stocks of over 60 m t against the norm of about 24 m t - Average pulse production during IXth Plan is 13 mt, the requirement of pulses is about 15 mt - Rate of growth of consumption of Rice and Wheat is expected to decline. Therefore, the answer to first question is in affirmative. Then we need to diversify our agriculture