Had ICT been used, his lot would have been better. Does he know?
This farmer using a pair of bullocks to plough his tract of land is a common sight in many parts of India. This farmer might be oblivious of the benefits of ICT to help him increase his produce from the land but farmers in other parts of India, particularly in South India, are greatly making use of ICT and plethora of information available on the Internet to weed out a lot of malpractices from their traditional methods of farming to make a bumper gain and be at the mercy of the nature far less in degree armed with that net knowledge. In 2007, e-Sagu, a project based around this agrarian theme won the Manthan Award. The picture lets us think of the necessity to make projects like e-Sagu more widespread with ours being still a agriculture based society and food security being such a worldwide concern especially with non-agrarian countries widely hit by recession.potable water cool and thus the seller termed as |