Post on 06-Nov-2021
Use and sustain ICT Innovations for Smallholder Agriculture: Experiences from ICRISAT
Vision A prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics
Mission To reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics
ICRISAT Locations in the Semi-arid Tropics
55 countries 6.5 million sq km 2.5 billion people
Headquarters- Patancheru, Telangana, India
ESA Regional
Hub-Nairobi, Kenya
WCA Regional
Hub- Bamako, Mali
Center of Excellence in ICT Innovations for Agriculture Provides a platform to bring ICT innovations in
Agriculture by integrating science, technology and value chain approaches (Farm to Fork)
The Biggest Challenge
The Looming Perfect Storm
Innovations in linking research-extension-farmers-markets
Expert (Extn. Officer) : Farmer ratio – 1: 2000 Contact intensity - 40 minutes/farmer/year by Govt Extension 3 hours per/target farmer/year by farmers association Require 675,000 extension personnel Dwindling financial resources; Less and less investments from
state and central governments
This is where ICT has a role!
Traditional Extension Systems: Existing Scenarios (Indian Case)
ICT for Development
Assessment of Information Flows
Assessment of Information Flows
NSSO 2005
Addakal Rural Hub
HUB
Gudibanda
Janampet
Kandur
Komireddipalli
Nijalapur
Polkampalli
Thimmapur
Vemula
First Generation ICT4D Approaches
Links to “end user” is not yet established
Local conditions often not in favor of last mile connectivity
PC-based “delivery” systems picking up (eg. Eastern Africa, especially Kenya and Malawi)
In all most all the projects the participation of agricultural education and research institutions appears to be marginal
Localization and customizability of content are not practiced on a significant scale
First Generation ICT4D Models: Experiences in SA &
SSA
Second Generation ICT4D Approaches
Virtual Knowledge Networks Mobile for Development
Expert – Farmer Farmer – Expert Expert - Expert
ICRISAT’s M4D consortium project is serving nearly 10,000 farmers: regularly sending useful crop advisories as voice messages
NKN & NOFN in India As on May 2014: KNK: 135 NARS Institutes covered. NOFN: WIP @ 95420 Gram Panchayats out of 2,50,000.
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Information flow of Krishi Gyan Sagar
M Commerce Power – Case Study
Population – 39 Mln
Tele-density – 60%
Mobile users 2011 – 23.4 Mln
Registered M Com base of Safaricom – 14 Mln
Population – 1230 Mln
Tele-density – 74%
Mobile users 2011 – 900 Mln
Registered M Com base of Airtel - 0.1 Mln
5% penetration of the mobile base would mean a monthly transactional value Rs.27000 Mln
Kenya India
Kenya’s population is
only 3% population of
India’s, but Kenya has
140 times more
M-Commerce users than
India.
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BUY / SELL Platform – using M-Commerce / Bitcoins..? Mobile money: register and load cash at your nearest mobile service provider outlet.
Bitcoin: Bitcoin is a digital currency, which is supported by a P2P network of computers across the internet that act as servers to process the financial transactions of this currency. Bitcoin is nothing more than a mobile app or computer program that provides a personal Bitcoin wallet and allows a user to send and receive bitcoins with them. Bitcoin network is shares a public ledger called the "block chain". This ledger contains every transaction ever processed, allowing a user's computer to verify the validity of each transaction. The authenticity of each transaction is protected by digital signatures corresponding to the sending addresses. At the end of August 2013, the value of all bitcoins in circulation exceeded US$ 1.5 billion with millions of dollars worth of bitcoins exchanged daily.
Pest Monitoring Module plays a pivotal role in transforming the way pest surveillance is done by automating and standardizing the way field data is captured and enabling easy transmitting of the same which in turn help build better and more reliable expert systems over a period of time
This solution consists of a surveillance device (Green Tablet) preloaded with a KGS application using which one can survey different regions and crops to monitor the growth of pest and disease
Pest monitoring Module
Krishi Gyan Sagar and Krishi Vani
receives the Flame Award 2013
For showcasing innovative use of technology of the decade
Participatory Extension Video
Digital Green - Bhoochetana
Execution Method
Sharing the right Information with the right people at the right time through the right channel