Information & Technology in Agriculture Reinforcement (iTEAR)
Overview:
The population of India has already been crossed 130+ cr and is still increasing alarmingly and that put a great pressure on the food grain production of India. On a rough reckoning it is an acceptable fact that India achieved a marvelous success in food grain production from a bare 51 million tons in 1951-52 to 232 million tons in 2010 but India is still hungry. What would happen if India needs to produce an additional 60 million tons of food grain by 2015 AD to feed its increased population? This poses a major challenge not only for the policy makers but also more directly to the agricultural and extension workers. The Information and Communication Technologies can generate new opening to bridge the gap between information haves and information have-nots in the rural areas.
Objectives:
· To make awareness to use technology proactively in day by day activities to resolve agriculture problems to continual improvement of productivity by reducing cost.
· To deliver relevant information’s regarding agro-inputs, crop production technologies, agro processing, market support, agro-finance and management of farm agri-business
How you can help & support this project:
Sponsors, individuals and organizations can help by supporting them in a number of ways:
· Sponsoring iTEAR information centre at villages
· Donating various type of IT system like laptop, PC, printer, telephone, mobile etc and various types of technological equipments of farmers.
· Volunteering at the villages for an extended period to find out root cause of farmers & make awareness on above subject