Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture and Rural Development
Contents: Preface. 1. Digital divide in India : measurement determinants and policy for addressing the challenges in bridging the digital divide/Sumanjeet Singh. 2. E-agriculture in India : agriculture knowledge communication with the application of information and communication technologies/I.V. Malhan and Samita Wadhera. 3. ICTs in the perspective of rural India: a review/Gaurav Papnai, Anup Prakash Upadhyay, Taufiq Ahemed and Neelam Bhardwaj. 4. Cyber extension: info tech empowerment of farmers of India/M.A. Ansari and I. Prabhakar. 5. Village knowledge centres and village resource centres: an overview/S. Senthilkumaran. 6. SATCOM application for sustainable rural development/K. Narayana Gowda. 7. E-village for agriculture and rural development: integrating ICTs with traditional agricultural extension methods in North-East India/R. Saravanan, C. Kathiresan, Narmi Darang, T. Indra Devi, Supriya Devi and Lizamoni Chungkurang. 8. India development gateway initiative: a national level ICT platform to reach the unreached/C. Kathiresan, B. Vijayalakshmi and N. Sarat Chandra Babu. 9. Linking the farmers with market through web and mobile/N. Anandaraja, N. Sriram, C. Kathiresan, Shibi Sebastian and E. Vadivel. 10. ICT based Kisan mobile Sandesh: an innovative approach/Abhay Wankhade, Nalin Khare, Surendra Pannase and Druv Shrivastava. 11. ICT initiatives for agricultural development in Kerala State/S. Nazreen Hassan and N. Kishore Kumar. 12. Taking agricultural technologies to the grassroots on wheels: a case study of the mobile agricultural school and services MASS initiative/Sanjay Kumar Rewani, Kumari Shweta, A.K. Pandey and J. Oraon. 13. Village resource centres VRCs in Uttaranchal/B. Maithili, Neelam Pandey and Paras Kakkar. 14. Community information centre: empowering rural poor through ICT/Dillip Pattanaik. 15. Expert system for pest and diseases diagnosis in rubber/N. Balasubramani. 16. Development of citrus e-clinic software/Sajeed Ali and Subrata Manna. 17. Effectiveness of interactive multimedia compact disc IMCD in diffusing technologies among farm women in wetland ecosystem/N. Anandaraja, N. Sriram, Shibi Sebastian and D. Periyar Ramasamy. 18. Development of farmers database for Darjeeling district/Subrata Manna. 19. Pest surveillance of rice crop using satellite data a case study for brown plant hopper N. Lugens/Sujay Dutta, I. Choudhury, Y.G. Prasad, M. Prabhakar, G. Katti, K. Vasantbhanu and S. Vennila. 20. Techmode approach for distance learning courses for field veterinarians/P.S. Lonkar, A.S. Ninawe and Ajit Maru. 21. Information retrieval system for buffalo reproduction/Y.P. Singh, S.K. Singh, S.K. Agrawal, S.K. Ghosh, G.K. Das, G.S. Bisht and Sanjay Kumar. 22. Useful databases and websites on agroforestry and farm forestry/P. Ratha Krishnan and R. Indumathy. 23. Watershed modelling for development of sustainable livelihood through convergence of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and integrated watershed management programme (IWMP) using GIS and remote sensing/K. Bonoy and Yogiraj V. Shete. 24. Effectiveness of ICT enabled village information centres among dairy farmers in Tamil Nadu/S. Senthikumar and Mahesh Chander. 25. Farm technologies through interactive multimedia: a multi stake holders perspective analysis/N. Anandaraja, N. Sriram, Shibi Sebastian and D. Periyar Ramaswamy. 26. E-readiness and participation level of AKSHAYA and KISSAN Kerala beneficiaries/M.S. Nataraju, A. Arun Babu and B.S. Lakshmana Reddy. 27. ICT for effective e-extension and the success of VRC network in Assam/S. Borua and P.K. Neog. 28. Internet utilization pattern in community information centre (CIC)/Bikash Borthakur and Mahesh Chander. 29. Application of ICT in agricultural extension: an evaluation study of Kissan call centres (KCCs)/Hemnath Rao Hanumankar.
