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Agricultural Content Analysis of ICT
1. CONTENT
• INTRODUCTION
• ICTS PROJECT IN INDIAN AGRICULTURE
REUTERS MARKET LIGHT
IKSL
LIFELINE
AAQUA
DIGITAL GREEN
E – SAGU
• DEFINITION OF CONTENT
• ANALYSIS OF CONTENT
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2. INTRODUCTION
• THE GENERATION AND APPLICATION OF AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE IS
INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY FOR SMALL AND MARGINAL FARMERS,
WHO NEED RELEVANT INFORMATION IN ORDER TO IMPROVE, SUSTAIN, AND
DIVERSIFY THEIR FARM ENTERPRISES. AGRICULTURE CAN REQUIRE SUBSTANTIAL
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER TO AND AMONG FARMERS, INCLUDING INFORMATION
ABOUT SUCCESSFUL FARMING PRACTICES, NEW TECHNOLOGIES OR CONTROLS
OF PEST AND DISEASE OUTBREAKS, AND NEW MARKETS. IN INDIA, INFORMATION
AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) PROJECTS THAT SUPPORT SUCH
INFORMATION FLOWS ARE RAPIDLY GROWING, WITH MANY INITIATIVES IN
OPERATION TODAY. ICTS CAN DIRECTLY SUPPORT FARMERS‘ ACCESS TO TIMELY
AND RELEVANT INFORMATION, AS WELL AS EMPOWER THE CREATION AND
SHARING OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE FARMING COMMUNITY ITSELF.
3. ICTs Project in Indian agriculture
Reuters Market Light
Started in October 2007, Reuters Market Light (RML), a business of Thomson Reuters, is a mobile-SMS that
provides personalized information to subscribed farmers, which today number about a million unique
subscribers in more than 40,000 villages. The service is delivered through SMS in eight local languages, across
13 states, and over any service provider or mobile phone (RML 2010).
4. IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL)
Indian Farmers Fertilizer Co-operative Limited (IFFCO) Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL) is a partnership between
IFFCO and the mobile service provider Bharti Airtel. The initiative started in June 2007 and now covers 18 states in India
Subscribers purchase an IFFCO-Airtel Green SIM (subscriber identity module) card, and revenue is generated from the
use of talk time by the subscribers. The green SIM card is seen by Airtel as a way to attract customers in rural areas. The
main service of IKSL is the provision of five free daily voice messages in the local language to subscribers. To date,
around 139,000 voice messages have been developed, and 95,000 messages have been delivered. Information is
provided on weather, crop and animal husbandry advisories, market prices, and miscellanea, such as fertilizer
availability, electricity timings, and government schemes.
5. Lifelines :-
Lifelines, a mobile- and Internet-based ICT project in agriculture, was launched by OneWorld.net, a UKbased
nongovernmental organization (NGO), in partnership with British Telecom and Cisco in 2006. Today Lifelines serves
more than 150,000 farmers in over 2,000 villages, and it partners with three NGOs in areas of the states of eastern
Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana. Lifelines provides answers to farmer queries based on demand. Access
to the Lifelines Q&A platform is via an interactive voice response system (IVRS) that routes queries and sends back
answers via an intelligent call manager and unified messaging service.
6. aAqua (Almost All Questions Answered)
aAqua is a free, online, multilingual, multimedia agricultural portal that provides agricultural and weather
information and advisories to farmers via the aAqua knowledge bank. Around 65 percent of aAqua users access
the portal through personal computers, and the rest access it at office, Internet kiosks or cyber cafes. Individuals
register as users by filling out an online form or through a phone interview. Users then post questions to experts
via the different spaces provided by the portal. Answers are provided within 24– 72 hours, depending on the
question.
7. Digital Green :-
Digital Green is a non profit organization that partners with NGOs, and also government agencies like the
National Rural Livelihood Mission, to improve the effectiveness of their field extension services by
disseminating agricultural practices using video as a medium. The process developed from the idea that
farmers prefer interpersonal methods of receiving information on new and innovative farming practices over
receiving that information through mass media methods.
8. e-Sagu:-
e-Sagu (sagu means cultivation in Telugu) uses the medium of digital photos of farmers‘ fields to provide expert
advice. Photographs are captured every 15 days by a local coordinator employed by e-Sagu; these photos are then
sent to the e-Sagu main center in Hyderabad, where they are examined by experts who provide advice, which is
sent back to the local coordinator. The advice is provided on a regular basis (typically once a week) from sowing to
harvesting. At the local e-Sagu center, the expert advice is downloaded electronically through a dial-up Internet
connection. The coordinator prints out the advice and delivers it to the farmer. In case of pests and diseases
requiring urgent treatment, the advice is sent via SMS directly to the farmers and the coordinator. Advice delivery is
in around 24–36 hours.
9. Definition of Content :-
Determining what content to provide is important in ICT projects, because it influences the relevance and
actionability of that content to the end users. The use of surveys, PRA, focus group discussions, and participatory
monitoring and evaluation may help support continual definition of appropriate content in ICT projects. Many of
the projects described here emerged from known information gaps and asymmetries in Indian agriculture. The
main driver of content in
RML is the perceived gap in information access by farmers—namely, access to spot market prices, timely
weather forecasts that can affect crops, or local input prices.
IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL) determines content via a mixed strategy, including structured surveys by
universities and third parties, needs assessment by in-house teams in different states, crop calendars and
analysis of agroclimatic conditions by experts based on existing data, PRAs in focus communities, capture of
specific interests of farmers at the initial farmer registration, and provision of a mix of messages capable of
covering various areas of interest.
aAqua and Lifelines recognize that farmers need access to personalized knowledge and advisory services
related to their on-farm crop production; this need was not being met by the existing extension system.
Lifelines and aAqua attempt to reduce the expert–farmer gap by providing a question and answer (Q&A)
platform that farmers can access on a demand basis via mobile and the Internet. .
e-Sagu also recognizes the weakness of the existing extension system, which has a lack of personalized and
timely information provided to farmers by the public extension services. e-Sagu considers the content
supported by public-sector extensions too generic and sees it as not being based on context-specific
situations
10. Analysis of Content:-
RML has two different processes of content assessment, depending on the content source. One is the local content,
which is self-generated by employed professionals. This content is cross verified and validated at the state and
national levels. External content is ensured by an internal team of market experts.
IKSL has periodic surveys conducted by external agencies and quality audits of delivered messages. These audits
check for authentic source and that the content provided is adequate, relevant, and accurate. The audits are
performed on a random selection from all the voice messages sent each month. CABI is also a certifier of IKSL crop
and livestock information, while the fact sheet produced mentions the sources of the information.
In the Lifelines platform, quality assurance occurs concurrently with the Q&A service and is separate from
operations.
Risk of poor service quality is always there, but knowledge workers are very cautious, because credibility with
farmers is quickly lost with poor answers that can be easily tracked. Knowledge workers are from the area and
are familiar with the context within which Lifelines operates.
aAqua uses independent authorities to verify the quality of answers to responses.
e-Sagu has standard operating procedures (SOPs) for taking the digital photos, which ensures quality photos
from which agro-advisory is given.
11. Reference :-
Adhiguru, P., P. S. Birthal, and B. Ganesh Kumar. 2009. ―Strengthening Pluralistic Agricultural Information Delivery
Systems in India.
Agricultural Economics Research Review 22: 71-79. Agrocom. 2010. ―Farmer Survey Responses: 2008–2010,
Conducted as of November 26, 2010.
Accessed April 15, 2011. www.agrocom.co.in/new/fr.php. Aker, J. C. 2010. ―Dial A for Agriculture: A Review of
Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension and in Developing Countries.