The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Digital India Corporation (DIC) have signed an initial pact to provide location specific farm tele-advisories in order to facilitate farmers by providing location specific Demand Based Tele Agriculture Advisories.
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‘The objective of the MoU is to integrate the existing Interactive Information Dissemination System (IIDS) platform of DIC with the proposed KisanSarathi program of ICAR and its implementation through ICAR network to reach a large number of farmers across the country.
ICAR which is under the agriculture ministry and DIC comes under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
Both ICAR and DIC have agreed to collaborate to develop and deploy ICT platforms to establish and operate a multi-media, multi-way advisory and communication system for supporting various agricultural activities at local level.
To start with, IIDS would be deployed at ICAR which is a push-and-pull-based system wherein agriculture-related information can be pulled from the farmers using mobile phones.
