{"id":5118,"date":"2015-05-26T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/govt-to-soon-introduce-agriculture\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T16:13:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:13:41","slug":"govt-to-soon-introduce-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/govt-to-soon-introduce-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. to soon introduce agriculture specific mobile applications for farmers: Agriculture Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThe Union Government will be soon introducing interactive voice response systems together with various other methodologies of integrating buyer-seller platforms through mobile applications to make mobile telephony the most potent and omnipresent tool for agriculture governance, administration and development, a top Agriculture Ministry official said at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi today.<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cA large, stupendous scope of work is on the anvil to reach out to the farmer and to change his life,\u201d said Mr Raghav Chandra, additional secretary, Ministry of Agriculture while inaugurating a conference on \u2018Mobile: Transforming Agricultural Value Chains Enabling e-Kranti,\u2019 organised by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM).<\/p>\n

\u201cIncreasingly there is the realisation that use of information technology has to become more pervasive and that is perhaps the only way we can achieve the next green revolution,\u201d said Mr Chandra.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why a national e-governance plan has been carved out also in the field of agriculture, this includes the use of internet, touch screen kiosks, agri-clinics, private kiosks, mass media, common service centres, kisan call centres, integrated platforms and others along with physical outreach of extensional personnel equipped with projectors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnsuring food security, ensuring sustainability which includes environmental factors and others and ensuring a fair return\/income to the farmer are three key challenges being faced by the country in the agriculture sector,\u201d added Mr Chandra.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government is aggressively involved in dealing with these issues and therefore matching demand and supply, ensuring that there is no unreasonable over-exploitation of natural resources and ensuring viability of agricultural production are some of the key challenges before us which are being tackled and taken up on a very serious note,\u201d he further said.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nTalking about the significance of agriculture in India, the top government official said that 13.7 per cent of India\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) is contributed to by agriculture and 56 per cent of India\u2019s population is directly connected with agriculture.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndia is about 17 per cent of world’s population i.e. about 8-9 per cent of world\u2019s population is connected with Indian agriculture,\u201d said Mr Chandra.<\/p>\n

He also said that the government is hopeful of achieving a higher rate of agriculture growth in the 12th Plan. \u201cIn the 9th plan we had a rate of growth of 2.5 per cent, in the 10th plan of 2.4 per cent which has grown to 4.1 per cent in the 11th plan and we are hopeful that we will be able to achieve similar figures in the 12th plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Chandra also said that total volume of food grains being produced in the country have been constantly rising as it reached about 275 million tonnes (mt), milk production is a little more than the value of food grains and horticulture is again stupendous figure of 285 mt and exports are constantly rising and today they stand at about $45 billion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntroduction of simple mobile services designed to help small-scale farmers in emerging markets could boost farm gate incomes of seven crore Indian farmers by over Rs 56,000 crore by 2020,\u201d noted a Vodafone report titled \u2018Connected Farming in India,\u2019 launched at the ASSOCHAM conference today.<\/p>\n

\u201cAverage farming household lives on less than Rs 250 per day with many farmers struggling to feed and educate their families,\u201d noted the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimple mobile services could enhance earnings of almost two-thirds of such farmers by an average of Rs 8,000 per year thereby creating a positive impact in communities,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Amid others who addressed the ASSOCHAM conference included \u2013 Ms Serpil Timuray, regional CEO , Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific , Vodafone; Mr Sunil Sood, CEO, Vodafone India; Mr Avinash Vashistha, chairman & country managing director, Accenture India and Mr Karan A. Chanana, chairman & CEO, Amira Pure Foods (India) Ltd.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Union Government will be soon introducing interactive voice response systems together with various other methodologies of integrating buyer-seller platforms through mobile applications to make mobile telephony the most potent and omnipresent tool for agriculture governance, administration and development, a top Agriculture Ministry official said at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi today. \u201cA large, stupendous scope of work is on the anvil to reach out to the farmer and to change his life,\u201d said Mr Raghav Chandra, additional secretary, Ministry of Agriculture while inaugurating a conference on \u2018Mobile: Transforming Agricultural Value Chains Enabling e-Kranti,\u2019 organised by The Associated <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,1],"tags":[8,1879],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-business-promotion","category-update","tag-news-events","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28194,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions\/28194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}