PORTAL FOR ICT RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN AGRICULTURE |
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Around 70% of the population were still relies on the agriculture sector in india. ICT has been used to provide farmers access to weather, soil, and crop information, as well as up to date market and commodity prices. Some community-based kiosk providers, such as Gyandoot, operate an auction facility, allowing farmers to sell land, agricultural machinery, bullocks or equipment or other durable commodities. This is a means of eliminating the middlemen commonly involved in rural commodity transactions. |
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List of Portals
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Objective: The India Agriline project, by the EID Parry enterprise is aimed at enhancing e-commerce in the agriculture sector.
Internet kiosks called 'Parry's Corners' have been designed to cater to the agricultural and commercial needs of the rural communities of Nellikuppam, Tamil Nadu, using connectivity provided by n-Logue. To make navigation easier, the website has been equipped with rollover audio features and Tamil-language text.
Farmers are saved a journey to the sugar factory from their remote villages as they can get all the required information through the Cane Management System section in the Indiagriline portal at their nearest Parrys Corner.
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Objective: In Bolivia, radio is an important form of mass media in rural communities. El Correo del Agricultor has helped change things around for farmers in the region by offering them information, such as the price list for the main agricultural products for that day.
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Objective: Transporters and farmers in Himachal Pradesh will now be able to keep track of trucks carrying their goods(apple) via the Internet.
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Objective: The Warna Wired village Project connects 70 villages in Maharashtra, India with each other and to the rest of the world through the Internet.
This project has been initiated to serve the information needs, of the farmers on different crop cultivation practices of major crops,pest and disease control,marketing information ,dairy and sugarcane processing
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Objective: It is responsible for bringing about an integrated development of marketing of agricultural and allied produce in the country with a view to safeguard the interests of producer-sellers as well as the consumers.
AGMARKNET is a comprehensive database which links together all the important agricultural produce markets in the country. It facilitates the generation and transmission of prices and commodity arrival information from agricultural produce markets. It then disseminates this information for the use of producers, consumers, traders and policy makers transparently and quickly.
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The b2bpricenow is for trading portal that will provide up to the minute price update on market information for agriculture, consumer manufactures, and industrial manufactures. http://b2bpricenow.com/contents/mainpage.asp
Online Agricultural Price information in Karnataka(running by Govt). This portal give information about the Agricultural Price Information gap between the Producers & Consumers...
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