Big data analysis to guide farmers
Farmers soon will not be looking at the sky guessing when it will rain to begin sowing operations. Rather, they will wait for an SMS on their mobile phones from the agriculture scientists and officers for the appropriate time.
The efforts on an experimental basis were already launched in Telangana when the International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) collaborated with Microsoft and the latter developed an application to guide farmers on when to sow, what crop to sow etc..
An SMS will be sent to the mobile phones of farmers in the local language, said Prashant Gupta, Principal Director, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft.
Microsoft, Cyient, Accenture are some leading IT companies that developed applications for other sectors too — education, health care so that useful inputs could be given to partnering government departments to make a change to people’s lives by making effective use of technology. These innovations were shared in a panel discussion on intelligent cloud and its transformative force on Indian economy in the ICT4D conference here on Monday.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/big-data-analysis-to-guide-farmers/article18460279.ece
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Hermann Kaser