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Use of Farmers’ Portal for dissemination of oil palm agro-management technology in India

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Title Use of Farmers’ Portal for dissemination of oil palm agro-management technology in India
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Creator K.L. Mary Rani, M.V. Prasad, S. Arulraj and B. Mounica
 
Subject Farmers’ Portal, Dissemination, Oil palm, SMS, Voice messages, Fedback, ICT
 
Description To support and augment the existing
information delivery channels provided by the Department of Agriculture, “Farmers’ Portal” was launched by Government of India to make the information available to farming community through use of information and communication technologies (ICT) (Kameswari et al., 2011). The portal is envisaged to meet information needs of farmers relating to Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries sectors and



*Corresponding Author: klmaryrani@gmail.com

Portal for oil palm farmers


information can be delivered through mobile messages in various languages free of cost. Hence, this portal was used by ICAR-IIOPR to disseminate oil palm technology and obtain feedback, thereby facilitating the oil palm growers, field extension staff of state department of agriculture/horticulture and extension staff of oil palm processors to take quick and apt decisions in oil palm cultivation. Thus a study conducted on feedback of ICT services used through FARMERS PORTAL and feedback obtained was given in this paper
In India, mobile phones are widely used for effective communication of various agro-management information to farmers. Oil palm is cultivated in India since two decades under irrigated conditions. The crop being new, farming technology has to be disseminated to field extension staff, growers and developers to take quick and apt decisions. Farmers’ Portal launched by Government of India (GOI) for farming community is also being used to disseminate the oil palm farming technology to its stakeholders through short message services (SMS). Contents prepared on various aspects on oil palm cultivation were published as text SMS (568) to the unique mobile numbers (19,301) of stakeholders of oil palm in India. Messages were published in four languages viz., Hindi, English, Telugu and Kannada to reach the stakeholders in vernacular languages. Stakeholders contact the Institute, seeking more information on various farming practices of oil palm viz., planting, protection, general information, fertilizer application, irrigation, harvesting etc. Consultation was provided to 304 farmers who sought information on fertilizer management (34.2%) followed by crop protection aspects (28.3%) and general information (24.0%) on oil palm cultivation. Feedback received from farmers showed that the SMS contents were useful in the following order: irrigation (15%), fertilizer application (14%), disease management (8%), weed control (4%) and all messages were useful (59%). Majority of the farmers (68%) perceived the messages were relevant to their crop growth/stages and 33 per cent farmers were adopting the practices sent through SMS.
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Date 2018-11-19T07:55:51Z
2018-11-19T07:55:51Z
2015-12-01
 
Type Journal
 
Identifier Mary Rani, K. L., Prasad, M. V., Arulraj, S. and Mounica, B. 2015. Use of Farmers’ Portal for dissemination of oil palm agro-management technology in India. Journal of Plantation Crops 43(3):250-253
0304-5242
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/12017
 
Language English
 
Relation Not Available;
 
Publisher Indian Society of Plantation Crops