Establishment of ICT Enabled Extension System
The Company’s ICT Mediated Knowledge Based Extension System is conceptual-mix which
includes Situational Analysis of Farming System, Location Specific
Planning, Problem Solving Mode of Implementation,
Results Based Monitoring, Inbuilt Risk-Alert System, Micro
Level Market Information, Process Based Management,
and finally Inbuilt Decision Support System.
It takes into account the real time information and socio-economic
background of farming systems based on real-time resource mapping including microflora
profiling and dynamic socio-economic profiles of block and village.
The unique features of the innovative system are as follows:
- Location Specific Planning based on dynamic block profile including real-time weather, water and soil resources
- Tailor made training based on joint diagnosis on farmers’ “felt” needs, and related Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK)
- ICT based advisory services and needed inputs observing real time crop conditions
- Risk assessment and Quick Alert on real-time data captured right at the location of risk
- Market information and intelligence on demand-supply situation of quantity and quality of farm commodities in the local markets
- Extension programme management based on unified process of inter-sectoral, inter-organizational and interpersonal communications coupled with consensus-building, negotiation, networking and multidisciplinary capacity building in a multi-cultural settings
- ICT based Decision Support Systems (DSS) facilitating efficient agriculture management and decision making by the farmers and all other stakeholders