Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture: Ikisans offerings to the Indian Farming Community Ezploring the Frontiers
Ikisan Limited, a company belonging to Nagarjuna Group brought together agricultural information, knowledge and business requirements of various players in agriculture to improve the cost-benefit ratio in agricultural production. This initiative of Ikisan is based on the fact that there are substantial gaps between the actual and potential productivity, quality and costs of production in agriculture due to lack of information and providing appropriate information can help in bridging these gaps. Ikisan hosts a comprehensive agricultural information portal (at www. ikisan. com) which provides both static and dynamic information on crops, commodity prices, weather, market information, and problem solving mechanisms in an easy to understand format for farmers and other players. The information provided is appropriate for specific localized situations and is available in English and five Indian languages. The portal gets approximately 40,000 hits per day on an average, which represents a good interest and response from stakeholders of the agricultural sector and makes it one of the foremost agri-info portals. In addition to this, Ikisan has considerable experience in conceiving, designing and implementing turnkey projects. Offerings and results of such initiatives of Ikisan will be discussed in detail in this paper.
Information and Communication Technologies for agriculture (ICT4A) agricul-ture Ikisan ICT4D
Vijay Jesudassan Shelly Patwar CH Ram Sankar
Marketing Manogement, Ikison Limited Senior Reseorch Fellow, Ikison Limited Software Associate, Ikison Limited
国际会议
2009 World Congress on ICT for Development(2009世界信息通信与发展大会)
北京
英文
378-386
2009-09-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）