Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in agriculture is an emerging field focusing on the enhancement of agricultural and rural development through information and communication processes. During the 2006-08 research cycle, LIRNEasia completed two innovative sub-projects on ICT applications in agriculture in Sri Lanka.
LIRNEasia hopes to extend this research, in collaboration with other organizations, to India as well, exploring how Common ground has been identified in testing out a system for providing market price information on mobile phones, along with other information such as weather (similar to GGS), using local-language voice recognition and weather monitoring technology developed at IIT-M. As in Sri Lanka, a before-and-after survey will be done to measure changes in welfare to farmers.
The final report will be available for download soon.
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