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ICTs 4 AgricultureAlmost All Questions Answered – An Agri

Knowledge Exchange

Anil Bahuman

Mentor @ Developmental Informatics Lab, I.I.T Bombay

CEO @ agrocom software technologies

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Indian Agriculture Sector

• Distributed in small pieces

• Unorganized

• Communication Gap

• No Standard practices

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Where ICT Can Help?

• Making Agri Organized– Concept of web 2.0 in agriculture for getting

organized – Organize various groups (commodities, areas,

experts, technology, practices )– Networking through Internet and cell phones

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How ICT Can Help?

• Communication Gap …– Between Farmers and experts– Between Institutes and Farmers– Between Government and Farmers – Between Farmers and Consumers – Between Plants and Experts, Farmers– Weather conditions

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Expertise

भा�षा�

Information

Market

Prices?

Fertilizers?

Hindi/English?

AgriculturalInformation?

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Research areas and projects

Wi-Fi Long Distance

Indic Text Input

Iconic interfaces

Meaning-based Search

Hardware Browser

InterfacesContent

Connectivity

Community fora

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aAQUA online discussion forum

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Almost All Questions Answered

To create an online forum allowing questions from the grassroots to be answered by experts in the field with assistance from automated agents that help recycle archived knowledge

 

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User requests and responsesin aAqua Server

Mobilenetwork

Mobilenetwork

InternetInternetaAqua Server

Crop Doctor

Crop Recommendation

KeywordBrowser

BhavPuchiye

aAqua

aAquaMobile

Gateway

HTTP

SMS

aAquaOffline

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Offline aAQUA

• For the areas where poor connectivity or no connectivity

• Can by synchronized with online version and get the updates

• Comes in a software format (CD)

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aAQUA Reach

2003Internet Kiosks @ Shirur, Khed and Haweli

Talukas of Pune Dist.

&

Vigyan Ashram @ Pabal, dist. Pune

&

Krishi Vigyan Kendra @ Baramati, dist, Pune

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PabalKhed

Baramati

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Farmer Demos

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Village kiosk services

Developmental Informatics Lab (DIL)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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aAQUA Reach

2008

aAQUA Received Questions from 290 Unique Districts

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aAQUA Reach: 2008

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2012

Total Registrations from 517 Districts

New Registrations from 385 Districts

38,592 posts from 393 Districts

aAQUA Reach: 2012

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Services

• agrocom's sms services provide timely information to Indian farmers.

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AGRI APPS

Smaller Payloads for Lower Data Transmission Costs

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Thank You

www.agrocom.co.in www.aaqua.org

abahuman@it.iitb.ac.inagrocom, 4th floor, KReSIT,

I.I.T. Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-76