Tamil Nadu government to implement IT in its agricultural department
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu would probably be creating a history of sorts by implementing IT in a big way in the agriculture department.
The state government has decided to link all 28-district headquarters’ offices of the agriculture department, besides linking the 385 block-level functioning, in a phased manner. Under the programme, the government would connect the district headquarters’ offices through a dial-up line, while building an exclusive portal and setting up kiosks at block level extension centres are also part of the programme. Block level kiosks would be deployed at all the 385 block level extension centres. These centres, bi-lingual in nature, would be a complete ‘farmers notebook’, which would help the farmers collect information on seed requirements, production guide, weather data, use of pesticides and fertilizers, and location-specific recommendations on irrigations, etc.
Source: http://www.ciol.com