As Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the “Digital India Week” here on Wednesday, India Inc. committed an investment of Rs.450,000 crore (some $75 billion) for the initiative that seeks to empower citizens by deploying IT and associated tools. Choosing no less than a sports stadium to launch the initiative where who’s who of India Inc.…
In what could potentially transform marketing of crops in India, the government has approved the creation of a common electronic platform which will allow farmers and traders to sell their produce to buyers anywhere in the country. Currently, the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) Acts in different states permit the first sale of crops —…
Small farmers growing vegetables and fruits in the hinterland can avoid the pain of hunting for buyers after taking their perishable commodities to wholesale markets in cities like Delhi. E-kisan, a portal that will go online on July 27, will allow them to showcase their farm produce on the Internet for wholesalers to bid remotely…
To connect villages with digital world, Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL), under Centre’s ‘Digital India’ project, is laying optical fibre cables in 335 gram panchayats in Indore division, said director BBNL (MP/CG), Ratan Ghosh at a press conference on Tuesday. Ghosh, while talking to media, said national optical fibre network, also named as ‘BharatNet’, is…
Agricultural extension strategy has been changing every 10 years, depending on time and local needs and in this situation,e-velanmai(e-agriculture) can help capture spot problems of farmers in mobile and tablets and sent to experts for solutions, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Vice-Chancellor, Dr K Ramasamy said here today. This was considering the contemporary condition assuming that…
The Union Government will be soon introducing interactive voice response systems together with various other methodologies of integrating buyer-seller platforms through mobile applications to make mobile telephony the most potent and omnipresent tool for agriculture governance, administration and development. “A large, stupendous scope of work is on the anvil to reach out to the farmer…