About
KISSAN
Karshaka
Information Systems Services And Networking
is an innovative project by the Department of Agriculture, Government
of Kerala.
Information
technology offers immense potential in enhancing the efficiency
and effectiveness of agriculture extension programmes, trade and
dissemination of best practices. This project for agriculture is
a pilot implementation of application of IT through relevant Information
Systems and networking to aggregate, share and disseminate information
of importance and interest to the farmers, agriculture workers and
officials in ways that enhance the total agriculture development
and farmers' welfare in the state. The project aims to establish
a farmer centric integrated distributed Information System for agriculture,
which would focus on catering to the various requirements and services
to the farmers across the state.
Origin
The
Government appointed a "High Level Committe on
IT and BT in Agriculture" under the chairmanship
of Prof. V.L Chopra (President National Academy of Agricultural
Sciences, and Former Director General, ICAR) to explore
the possibilities of Information Technology and Biotechnology
for the enhancement of Agriculture in Kerala. Based
on the detailed study and importance the committe recommended
two major projects each in IT and BT.
Based
on the detailed survey and studies, the committe recommended
KISSAN (Karshaka Information Systems Services And Networking)
as one of the major projects to be implemented in Agriculture.
Mission of
the Project
The
goal is to deploy and commission such information systems
and networking that helps empowering all the stakeholders
in Agriculture through the following five "fundamental
rights" of Knowledge Management in the agricultural
domain:
"Right Information to the Right Person(s)
at the Right Time in the Right Place(s)
and in the Right Context"
The mission of this project is to develop and deploy
Information Systems, Network, Processes and Services
for Agriculture
in ways that lead to (i) amelioration of farmers' distress
and enhance their welfare, (ii) increased farm productivity
and (iii) better returns for farm produce and derived
products.
The objective is to provide an effective knowledge management
and smart information dissemination system that provides
linkage among farmers, public research institutions,
administrative and private entrepreneurs to share the
information and knowledge.
Project
Deliverables
The
core deliverable of the project is the integrated multi-component,
multi-modal and geographically distributed agriculture
Information system that is accessible anywhere anytime
by all concerned. The project will establish a pilot
scale deployment of information systems and networking
in the Thiruvananthapuram district and neighbourhood
in 10 panchayat level Krishi Bhavans and relevant farm
information agencies, internet assisted collection of
information from authentic sources and dissemination
of the same anywhere through different networks.The
different component deliverable activities are as under.
1.
Establish high quality low-cost network architecture
for speedy information aggregation and dissemination.
2.
Establish an Agriculture Information Aggregation and
Dissemination Data Centre (we shall refer to this as
Agri-Data Centre or ADC) at IIITM-K.
3.
Equip relevant agencies such as Farm Information Bureau,
Directorate of Agriculture, Kerala Agricultural University
(KAU), Identified district level Agricultural offices,
Krishi Bhavans, etc. with adequate systems to commission
IT facilitated extension programmes.
4.
Develop and deploy Information Systems with Knowledge
Management capability at the ADAC to support the above
services.
5.
Develop supplementary technologies and facilities for
e-content development and for distribution of information
through Television Networks.
6.
Commission regular IT facilitated Agriculture Extension
Programmes over the pilot information and knowledge
network.
Collaborating
Agencies/Department
Various
Organisations and Department collaboring the projects
are
- Department
of Agriculture
- Indian
Institute of Information Technology and Management
- Kerala(IIITM-K)
- Farm
Information Bureau
- Kerala
Agriculture University
- Directorate
of Agriculture
- Department
of Soil Survey
- Department
of Soil Conservation
- Land
Use Board
The
Team
KISSAN
is developed and maintained by a team of experts from
Information Technology, Agriculture, Research Scientists,
and Visual Media etc. The technology support is provided
by the Indian Institute of Information Technology and
Management- Kerala (IIITM-K).
KISSAN-
Agriculture Data Centre
An
effective agriculture information system requires a
dedicated content processing and dissemination system.
This involves the collection, analysis, classification,
process various information from different sources.
The project will establish an agriculture data center,
which will cater all the needs. High-end servers and
other data processing equipments will back up the data
center. All the information will be processed and disseminated
through this data center.
The objectives of the data center are:
To establish a single platform to aggregate all the
available information on agriculture
To customize the information dissemination
To speed up the content process analysis
To provide an open platform for content providers
To establish a high-end connectivity to the local and
district headquarters for easy flow of information
To establish the authenticity of information
To establish a dedicated data processing unit.
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