FINAL REPORT

National Agricultural Innovation Project (Indian Council of Agricultural Research)

Engaging Farmers, Enriching Knowledge: Agropedia Phase II

Dr.T.V. Prabhakar Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur -208016 Phone: 0512 259 7618

Cell: 09935148482 Fax: 0512 2590725

tvp@iitk.ac.in

2014

FINAL REPORT- 2011 to 2014

National Agricultural Innovation Project (Indian Council of Agricultural Research)

“Engaging Farmers, Enriching Knowledge: Agropedia Phase II”

Dr.T.V. Prabhakar Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur -208016 Phone: 0512 259 7618

Cell: 09935148482 Fax: 0512 2590725

tvp@iitk.ac.in

Inside Cover Page Printed on : February, 2014

Component : 1

Citation :

Copyright : Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)

Disclaimer : The information presented herein is contribution of the consortia.

Published by : Dr.T.V. Prabhakar Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur -208016 Phone: 0512 259 7618 Cell: 09935148482 Fax: 0512 2590725 tvp@iitk.ac.in

Edited by : Dr. Sharwan Shukla Revathy KT

Compiled by : Dr. Sharwan Shukla Sugatha Chaturvedi Krishan Kumar Dubey

Hindi translation : Dr. Vinod Kumar

Other Credits : NAIP, ICAR, R&D-IIT Kanpur, all the partners associated with agropedia project, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, State agricultural Universities, Mr. Avinash Karnick

Cover page Photographs

: Deepak Kumar

Printed at : IIT Kanpur

Foreword It has been a great pleasure for IIT-Kanpur to work with all its consortium partners in the development of agropedia throughout its tenure. The combined effort of the team has led to successfully achieve the goals which were proposed at the beginning of the project. As the project is coming to its last phase we would like to extend our sincere thanks to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research for its steady and continued support and encouragement. Team agropedia is proud of all their achievements in the past five years. A project of this size can rarely be expected to reach a successful stage of conclusion without dedicated involvement and well meaning co-operation. We take this opportunity to individually thank all our partners. UAS Raichur has been a great support not just in content provisioning and vKVK activities but also in project management and planning. ICRISAT, Patancheru for content provision, development of crucial crop knowledge models and able assistance in ideation and conceptualization of many of the features. ZPD-IV, Kanpur for vKVK propagation and extension content contribution. It also helped in scaling up from 24 to 191 KVK’s in India University of Agricultural Sciences at Raichur for their content provision and advisories. Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, Directorate of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad and IASRI, Delhi made sizable contribution by quickly populating their respective portals with meaningful content and providing guidance and support. Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta for systematic monitoring and evaluation. ICT and Knowledge Management is a new age tool and is an aid in enhancing productivity and effectiveness for the agricultural community. We earnestly hope that agropedia will see the dawn of a revolutionary era in agriculture and will serve the intended beneficiaries with renewed vigour. Thanks

Dated: 19.02.2014 (Prof. T.V. Prabhakar) IIT-Kanpur

Preface

Agropedia Phase - II was launched in April, 2011 under a consortium of five partners which was led by I.I.T.Kanpur and was meant to carry forward the good work done in the preceding phase. It had been originally crafted to encase some uniquely distinctive features such as a semantically enabled search and browse utility along with social networking. The second phase enabled us to expand on its rich composite features, with renewed vigor, and a focused aim to widen its horizon and broad-base its functionality to the agricultural expert community and other stakeholders. The content and knowledge repository which was hitherto restricted to certified content, an interaction space, and crop based knowledge models was supplemented with a service delivery platform vKVK. vKVK as its name suggests is an ICT tool with both a web and mobile interface to bridge the communication barrier between the extension expert and the farmer. The interaction in the form of alerts and advisories can now happen over a mobile instrument either through text based sms or a voice format. It has brought a much desired convenience to the extension expert and obviates the need for regular field visits in addition to savings on transportation costs. A notable addition is open-agri, a dedicated space for content in the form of research papers, journal extracts, textbook chapters, doctoral dissertations and conference proceedings. In 2013 agropedia has been relaunched as a knowledge management platform with SaaS (Software as a Service) as its underlying theme. It has enabled the speedy creation of distinct portals for institutions, commodities or people. Voice POP (Package of Practices) is an added component in audio format for web and mobile interfaces comprises of detailed advisories for practices from sowing to harvesting on 57 crops. KrishiVoc a multipurpose vocabulary meant for Indian Agriculture has been designed on the lines of Agrovoc (FAO).

Dated: 19.02.2014 (Prof. T.V. Prabhakar) IIT-Kanpur

CONTENTS

No. of pages

Foreword -by CL (1 page)Preface -by CPI (1 page)

1 pageExecutive Summary/ Key words 3 pagesPart-I: General Information of Sub-project 3 - 1/2 pagesPart-II: Technical Details

1. Introduction 5 pages2. Overall Sub-project Objectives ½ pages3. Sub-project Technical Profile 5-1/2 pages4. Baseline Analysis 1 page5. Research Achievements 30-33 pages6. Innovations 3 pages7. Process/Product/Technology Developed ½ page8. Patents (Filed/Granted) ½ page9. Linkages and Collaborations 1 page10. Status on Environmental and Social Safeguard Aspects

½ page

11. Constraints, if any and Remedial Measures Taken ½ page12. Publications 1 page13. Media Products Developed/Disseminated 4-5 pages14. Meetings/Seminars/Trainings/Kisan Mela, etc. organized

11 pages

15. Participation in Conference/ Meetings/Trainings/ Radio talks, etc.

3 page

16. Foreign Trainings/Visits ½ page17. Performance Indicators 2 page18. Employment Generation ½ page19. Assets Generated 1 page20. Awards and Recognitions ½ page21. Steps Undertaken for Post NAIP Sustainability ½ page22. Possible Future Line of Work ½ page23. Personnel 1-2 pages24. Governance, Management, Implementation and Coordination

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Part-III: Budget and its Utilization 2 pagePart-IV: Declaration 1 page

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एगर्ोपीिडया पिरयोजना, भारतीय कृिष अनुसंधान पिरषद। न्यू िदल्ली के भारतीय कृिष नवोन्मेषी पिरयोजना के

अंतगर्त िव पोिषत पिरयोजना ह,ै िजसके ि तीय फेज का पर्ारम्भ अपैर्ल २०११ म हुआ और बन्द होने िक ितिथ

माचर् २०१४ िनधार्िरत ह।ै एगर्ोपीिडया पिरयोजना भारतीय तकनीकी संस्थान, कानपुर पिरयोजना म सहयोगी

संस्थान, अंतरार् ीय उष्णकिटबंधीय फसल अनुसंधान संस्थान पटनचेरु हदैराबाद, भारतीय पर्बंधन संसथान

कलक ा, कृिष िवज्ञानं िवशिव ालय, रायपुर और क्षतर्ीय पिरयोजना िवदशेालय, जोन-४, कानपुर ह।ै

वषर् २०१३ के बाद भारतीय पर्बंधन संसथान कलक ा, एगर्ोपीिडया के पिरयोजना सहयोगी नह रह ेऔर कुछ नए

संस्थानो को सहयोगी बनाया गया। िजसमे, भारतीय भगवानी अनुसंधान संस्थान, बीज अनुसंधान िनदशेालय और

भारतीय कृिष सांिख्यकी अनुसंधान संसथान सहयोगी संसथान ह।ै एगर्ोपीिडया पिरयोजन के ि तीय फेज के अंतगर्त जो कायर् िकया गया उसमे िवषय समागर्ी को िविभ रूपो म

करना तथा उसको िविभ माध्यमो से िवतरण करना ह ैजैसे िक फसल समबंधी सम्पूणर् जानकारी को इलेकटर्ािनक

माध्यम से िविभ पर्कार से िलिखत तथा ध्विन माध्यम से मोबाइल फोन तथा कंप्यूटर पर उपलब्ध कराना ह ै

िजससे िकसानो तथा पर्सार कायर् कतार्ओ को उनकी आवश्यकता के अनुसार जानकारी उपलब्ध हो सके।

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Executive Summary

(a concept note on the project agropedia) IIT-Kanpur

The sub-project “Engaging Farmers, Enriching Knowledge: Agropedia Phase II” (Sub-project code: F. No. 30(6)/2006/ICDS/Agropedia-II/NAIP/O&M) was sanctioned in April 2011 with a closing date of March 2014, for a total budget of Rs. 521.92 The project is being funded by the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). The Consortium leader IIT Kanpur and consortium partners ICRISAT Patancheru, IIM Calcutta, UAS Raichur and ZPD Zone-IV Kanpur together accomplished the sub-project programme.

In the year 2013, IIM-Calcutta discontinued as a consortium member and new organisations, Directorate of Oilseeds Research (DOR), Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI), and Indian Institute of Horticulture Research (IIHR), joined the group as consortium partners to achieve the objective of the project.

In the second phase, the project worked on issues related to the form and nature of content, and its distribution. Since the content is hosted in electronic form it is possible to make it active and personalized. A simple example of such content, is the package of practices: an electronic version of package of practices is an app (short form for application) sitting either in the server or the Farmer/Extension workers (cell phone) which can ‘wake up’ every day and figure out any intervention/care is needed. Such an app requires the content to be time-line-based, the farmer be registered (what crop, soil characteristics) and the interventions in the crop so far (like “fertiliser applied on day 16”).

The primary objective of the sub-project in agropedia Phase II was: generate, aggregate and disseminate agriculture extension content.

Towards these we needed to:

evolve mechanisms to generate authentic, useful and timely extension content organise content is an easy to use semantic platform set up virtual extension platforms in representative locations that will help us analyze and

evaluate our exercise develop, strengthen and enhance existing platforms for organization and dissemination of this content

The objective-wise achievements were:

Activity 1: Extension Content Mobilisation

Activity 2: Popularisation, Capacity Building

Activity 3: Social Network Development, Impact monitoring/assessment

Activity 4: Virtual Extension Activities

Activity 5: Knowledge Models

Activity 6: Platform Enhancement

The above mentioned achievements were undertaken by all the partners.

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IIT-Kanpur as a consortium leader in the second phase developed and conceptualized the agropedia platform in the first phase. In the second phase agropedia is deployed as SaaS - Software as a Service model which means it can be used to rapidly build agriculture portals for communities such as Universities, Crops, Sectors, Institutions, etc. Some of them are icrisat.agropedia.in, uasr.agropedia.in, iitk.agropedia.in and the unified portal for all of these is at agropedia.in.

Popularisation and Capacity building as one of the objectives, IIT-Kanpur organized workshops and training on agropedia at different universities and Krishi Vigyan Kendra to populate agropedia and train the experts. Developed KMs on crops like Mango, Potato, Onion, cotton etc-along with partners and uploaded on the agropedia website.

The vKVK (voice Krishi Vigyan Kendra) platform is developed by IIT-Kanpur in a consortium mode as part of ICAR-NAIP supported project entitled “Engaging Farmers, Enriching Knowledge - agropedia Phase II.

vKVK is a platform that connects KVKs with farmers through internet and mobile technology. The objective here is to bridge the gap between the farmers and the KVK expert. vKVK service started in August, 2011 as a pilot project in four states with the official partners viz International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)-Hyderabad, University of Agricultural Sciences-Raichur and ZPD-IV.

Initially, the service was started in 24 KVKs and is now being up-scaled in 191 KVKs covering more than 35,000 farmers. The vKVK service is cutting across all the service providers and can be accessed flawlessly on even low end mobile handsets. All vKVK services are free of cost to the farmers.

Executive Summary by ICRISAT, Hyderabad The Consortium was formed in the context of ongoing concerns and discussions about the effectiveness of agricultural information outreach processes in general, and through the institutionalized extension system in India in particular. Our goal was to find ways by which ICT developments can be harnessed in a practical and affordable manner to link agricultural research, education and extension institutions and processes with stakeholders in the farm. At present, the conventional agricultural extension system with one-to-one approach or one-to mass approach using traditional communication methods like training, demonstration, etc. are face major problems in transforming the agricultural knowledge/technology from lab to land. To overcome these challenges, the ICT which includes the internet and mobile network has the potential to manage the large volume of agricultural Knowledge and provide agro information services that are affordable, relevant, searchable and updated form to large number of stakeholders in agriculture. In this connection, ICRISAT, Agricultural universities and IT institutions had developed a unique IT platform called Agropedia. A key outcome was the development of advanced and contemporary semantic web and data mining technologies for agricultural content management. The Agropedia platform, built with semantic web technologies, has been accepted as the first of its kind in agricultural sector globally. In its short span it has developed several path breaking concepts, they are Crop Knowledge models which

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are network representations of agricultural knowledge and in which KMs for 9 crops have been developed. Agropedia is a content management platform for storing and searching everything related to agriculture. “Engaging Farmers, Enriching Knowledge: Agropedia Phase-II” launched on April 1st, 2011 and continued till date. The project is being funded by the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). The consortium partners include IIT-Kanpur, ICRISAT, IIM-C Calcutta, ZPD-Kanpur, and UAS-Dharwad. The project initially started with 30 KVKs of UP, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka to pilot test. And further extended to total 100 KVKs covering around 25000 farmers of the selected states. The Content of all the ICRISAT mandated crops i.e. Pigeon pea, Chickpea, Groundnut, Sorghum, Sweet Sorghum and Pearl Millet has been revised by the ICRISAT experts and mobilized on Agropedia website. Under the project, a social networking platform and agro-advisory delivery network were developed by the consortium leader, IIT-Kanpur to support extension workers and farm communities. ICRISAT being the consortium partners is involved in issuing voice agro-advisories in local language to more than 4000 farmers of AP and Karnataka. The vKVK stands for “Voice Krishi Vigyan Kendra” is an unique and cellphone based multi nodal agricultural advisory system. The vKVK services were extended from 8 KVKs to 20 KVKs in five states and more than 880 voice messages were sent to 1,24,000 farmers. Executive Summary-DOR Rajendranagar, Hyderabad Asymmetry to information is perpetual in all facets of agriculture. Lack of access to right information at the appropriate time has deprived the agrarian community of enhanced economic living. Lack of proper linkages for information sharing and non-availability of content in local languages constrain farmers as well as knowledge intermediaries such as extension staff in using information effectively. Oilseeds play a vibrant role in the Indian economy. India is a key global oilseed producer, consumer, importer and exporter as well. Information dissemination plays a key role for all the stakeholders involved in oilseeds. The advent of ICT has played a key role in the sphere of information retrieval. The dovetailing of information on oilseeds that is in vogue under the NARS system can be effectively utilised under the Knowledge portal on a dynamic mode. The oilseeds agropedia.in is a very handy tool for transformation of information to the clientele involved in oilseeds. The NAIP has sanctioned a project under Agropedia Phase-II to Directorate of Oilseeds research, Hyderabad to develop knowledge objects for castor, sunflower, niger, sesame, linsed and safflower. Under the project, 937 knowledge objects and 399 images were uploaded to the oilseeds.agropedia.in. The knowledge objects covered a host of topics on the crop production, crop protection, climate, soils ,quality, marketing, price information etc for the above crops. The images uploaded covered pests and diseases, varieties and hybrids, field demonstrations, field days and related images. The successful stories were also documented. The videos and audios were also populated to the agropedia. The project has enabled for a two way communication between the researchers and the users through the portal; enhanced the visibility of the institute and also paved way for enhanced interaction between the scientists with the increase in number of farmers, NGO's and other stakeholders.

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ZPD – IV, Kanpur

A project on "Engaging Farmers, Enriching Knowledge" Agropedia Phase-II under NAIP was implemented as consortia partner along with IIT, Kanpur; ICRISAT, Hyderabad, UAS- Raichur and IIM Calcutta. ZPD-IV worked on extension content mobilization, capacity building, social networking, impact monitoring and extension 3.0 and developed knowledge models on mungbean, lentil, goat and buffalo. vKVK developed as user friendly ICT innovations for empowering experts of KVKs to send voice message and share knowledge, Expert-Farmers (E2F), Farmers-Expert (F2E) and Expert-Expert (E2E) mode have been experimented. Uploaded more than 250 agriculture informative blogs on agropedia site. To collect the impact information data related to 'Role of Agropedia' from 120 farmers of 12 districts of U.P. & Uttarakhand.

Developed text & audio package of practice (PoP) of important crops, Pulses, Oilseeds, vegetables and livestock. KrishiVoc (Indian Agricultural Vocabulary) service has been started under project activities under this a comprehensive coverage of Indian agriculture terminology. Terms pertaining to Crops, Forest, Animal husbandry and Dairy science, Atmospheric science, Economics, Engineering & Extension, Plant protection, Plant production, Crop improvement, Post-harvest management etc. 2739 voice message were sent to 418670 no. of farmers in Zone-IV.

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Part-I: General Information of Sub-project

1. Title of the sub-project: Engaging Farmers, Enriching Knowledge: Agropedia Phaes-II 2. Sub-project code: F.No. 30(6)/2006/ICDS/Agropedia-II/NAIP/O&M 3. Component: 1 4. Date of sanction of sub-project: 01.04.2011 5. Date of completion: 31.03.2014 6. Extension if granted, from 01.04.2012 to 31.03.2014 7. Total sanctioned amount for the sub-project: 521.92 8. Total expenditure of the sub-project: 356.04 9. Consortium leader: T.V Prabhakar, Professor, Address: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur -16, Phone: 0512 259 7618, tvp@iitk.ac.in Website: agropedia.in 10. List of consortium partners: Name of CPI/ CCPI

with designation Name of organization and

address, phone & fax, email Duration

(From-To) Budget

(` Lakhs) CPI Dr.T.V. Prabhakar Dept. of Computer Science &

Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur -208016 Phone: 0512 259 7618 Cell: 09935148482 Fax: 0512 2590725 tvp@iitk.ac.in

April 2011 to March 2014

239.88

CCPI1 Dr. N T Yaduraju Principal Scientist ICT 4- D

Knowledge Sharing and Innovation ICRISAT, Patancheru PO. 502 324 Andhra Pradesh, India Phone: 040 – 30713365 Cell: 07893982456 Fax: 040 30713456 N.Yaduraju@cgiar.org V.Sumanth@cgiar.org

(April 2011 -Till 5th December 2013) (From 6th December 2013 to March 2014

59.26

Sumanthkumar VV

CCPI2 1) L.B. Hugar & Dean(Agri.)

Dept. of Agriculture Economics, College of Agriculture, UAS, Raichur- 584101 Karnataka

March, 2011 to August 2013

61.79

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2) A Prabhuraj Prof. of Entomology, College of Agriculture, UAS, Raichur-584101 Karnataka Phone:08532 220442 Fax: 08532-220369 prabhusha@hotmail.com agropediauasraichur@gmail.com

September, 2013 to as on today

CCPI 3 Dr. A.K Singh Zonal Project Director

Zonal Project Directorate Zone -4 Kanpur – 208002 U.P, India Phone: 0512 2533560, Fax -0512 2533560 Cell: 09335729783 aksinghcsa@yahoo.co.in

April 2011 to March 2014

56.76

CCPI 4 Dr. Runa Sarkar Associate Professor Economics Group

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta D H Road Joka, Kolkata – 700104 Ph.: 91-33-24678300 to 06 Extn. 577 Cell: 9163007753 runa@iimcal.ac.in

April 2011 to March 2013

65.1

CCPI5 Dr. Srinivasa Murthy Principal Scientist

IIHR, Bangalore, Hassaraghatta Lake Post, Bengaluru-560 089 Ph: 080 284664, Cell: 09448988486 srinivas@iihr.ernet.in

April 2013 to March 2014

12.69

CCPI6 Dr. SV Ramanrao Head

AKMU,DOR, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad – 500 030 Cell: 08886567385 raosvr@gmail.com

April 2013 to March 2014

12.69

CCPI7 Dr. Shashi Dahiya Principal Scientist

Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi Cell:09811355350 shashi@iasri.res.in

April 2013 to March 2014

13.73

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11. Statement of budget released and utilization partner-wise (` in Lakhs): 2011- 2014 CPI/ CCPI Name,

designation & address) Total

budget sanctioned

Fund released (up to closing

date)

Fund utilized (up to closing

date) CPI Dr.T.V. Prabhakar

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur -208016

239.89 192.63 192.83

CCPI1 NT Yaduraju Principal Scientist ICT-4D (Till 5th December 2013) Sumanthkumar VV (From 6th December 2013 onwards Knowledge Sharing and Innovation, International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics(ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324

59.26 32.11 41.85

CCPI2 1) L.B. Hugar (Dean Agri.) UAS, Raichur 2) A. Prabhuraj Prof. of Entomology, College of Agriculture, UAS, Raichur.

61.79 50.41 41.96

CCPI3 Dr. A.K Singh Zonal Project Director Zonal Project Directorate Zone -4 Kanpur – 208002 U.P, India

56.77 34.22 31.13

CCPI4 Dr. Runa Sarkar Associate Professor Economics Group Indian Institute of Management Calcutta D H Road Joka, Kolkata - 700104

65.10 49.13 39.02

CCPI5 Dr. Srinivasa Principal Scientist IIHR, Bangalore, Hassaraghatta Lake Post, Bengaluru-560 089

12.69 6.34 2.33

CCPI6 Dr. SV Ramanrao Head AKMU,DOR, Rajendranagar,

12.69 6.34 5.35

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Hyderabad – 500 030 CCPI7 Dr. Shashi Dahiya

Principal Scientist Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi

13.73 6.86 1.59

Total 521.92 378.3 356.04 Part-II: Technical Details

1. Introduction IIT Kanpur conceptualized and developed the agropedia platform in the first phase. Agropedia has been up for close to five years. The challenge was to create a platform, which is conceptually simple, easy to use and rich in features incorporating the latest technological advances. Several interesting conceptual and technical innovations came out of this effort. A large number of agri-scientists were trained. Thus, its active participation and achievements lead us into agropedia phase II. Here in, agropedia 2.0 has been redesigned and built completely ground up. agropedia 2.0, an advancement over earlier agropedia is a Knowledge Management Platform, which aspires to be a one stop shop for any information, pedagogic or practical knowledge related to extension services in Indian agriculture. agropedia 2.0 is deployed as a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform. It is Knowledge Management Platform, as against a simple content repository. Any object loaded into the platform, we call them knowledge objects, quickly arranges itself into a web of relationships, automatically computed.

agropedia2.0

There are many agropedias, one for each Institute, Crop, Sector and University. However, there is one agropedia, the ICAR agropedia, which is the 'mother' agropedia. The ICAR agropedia is the union of all the knowledge objects of all the other agropedias. Every content is uploaded into the 'child' agropedia automatically goes into the ICAR agropedia. Thus, the users of agropedia are the architects of knowledge, which is lifeblood of agropedia, and they do so through an easy to use and intellectually stimulating web interface. Agropedia 2.0 is much more than a website/portal. It can compute relationships; connect documents with other

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documents and people. There are some state-of-art innovations in the background which drive agropedia, like knowledge models, faceted autotaggers, semantic search.

Participating Universities & Institutions ICAR, ICRISAT, UAS Raichur, IIT Kanpur, ZPD-IV, GBPUA&T, Oil Seeds, Horti Agropedia, SpicePedia, Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Sugarcane Breeding Institute (SBI), Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Island (IGFRI), Central Agricultural University (CAU), MAIZE, NRC, IARI, IPM, NRCPB, NBPGR, Livestock, CSAU, Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI), MANAGE

Snap Shot ICAR agropedia: agropedia.in

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Snap shot of iitk agropedia (http://iitk.agropedia.in/)

IIHR, Bangalore Centre Agropedia is a very innovative knowledge sharing platform which has attracted huge international curiosity since its deployment in 2009. It has met the long felt need of the agricultural community by serving as the one-stop-shop for agriculture. If exploited fully, agropedia for agricultural community would be like what Wikipedia, Google, YouTube and FaceBook are for the general public. Using the same framework, it is proposed to develop a Knowledge portal solely dedicated to horticulture. The present proposal will bring all the academia involved in horticulture sector to come on one platform with responsibility for contributing, enriching and sharing content in their respective domain areas. This will not only make the portal dynamic and vibrant but a self- sustaining one. ICRISAT, Hyderabad The Consortium was formed in order to create a common architecture for digital information aggregation and services in the context of agricultural practices involving multiple institutions and stakeholders with widely varying requirements and criteria for usefulness or effectiveness. The FAO made a significant contribution in kind by deputing an international expert to take residence at one of the partner institutions, IIT-Kanpur, to support the development of consistency in relationships between agricultural science concepts used in formulating concept maps of crop knowledge models. Thus, important synergies between SAU-ICAR organizations, ICT resource institutions and international organizations were carefully harnessed to build prototypes and products and test them on a large scale.

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Content availability and its intelligent organization continue to be serious challenges in Indian agriculture. This prevents order of meaningful and efficient advisory and allied services to farmers and stakeholders. Agropedia is an attempt to infuse semantic and social networking technologies into agriculture information management to alleviate this problem. Its aims to develop a comprehensive digital content framework, platform and tools in support of agricultural and outreach. The contents of the ICRISAT mandate crops are available in the ICRISAT Agropedia in the website http://icrisat.agropedia.in

ICRISAT Agropedia: Screen shots

UAS-Raichur UAS Raichur participated in the first phase of agropedia and participated actively in content generation and knowledge modeling. It was involved in developing knowledge models of various crops and decision support systems. Looking into its active participation in first phase, it was included in the second phase of the project. DOR Asymmetry to information is perpetual in all facets of agriculture. Lack of access to right information at the appropriate time has been noted as the major impediment in lifting the peasants out of poverty, deprivation and hunger. Lack of proper linkages for information sharing and non-availability of content in local languages constrain farmers as well as knowledge intermediaries such as extension staff in using information effectively. Potentially useful knowledge and information generated by the researchers more often do not reach those who need it the most due to these weaknesses in knowledge management. Though improved connectivity and enhanced access to computers and mobile phones offer new opportunities to manage knowledge better, lack of quality digital content and information management architecture has been constraining sharing of locally relevant knowledge.

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The rapid strides made in the ICT front and the concomitant support of the Government of India to enable ICT for larger penetration to the rural masses has become a handy tool for effective transfer of information to the rural society. The "swinging shift" to adopt ICT tools and techniques under the NARS system in the country provided a huge opportunity to disseminate the information to the agrarian mass and all other clientele involved in agriculture. With this premise the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) through the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), facilitated the formation of a consortium of institutions to implement a knowledge management project from 2008 to 2014. The development of RICE KNOWLEDGE MAMAGEMENT PORTAL opened up the thinking process to expand to the NARS system for developing a comprehensive and integrated platform for agricultural content management (organization, storing and sharing) to support and promote knowledge flows and exchanges between different stakeholders. This was made operational through the project “Agropedia"

AGROPEDIA Agropedia platform (http://agropedia.in/) consists of a knowledge repository, a social networking platform and content distribution services. It is the first Indian agricultural knowledge repository developed with knowledge-models for localized content for a variety of users with appropriate interfaces built in collaborative mode to support information access. It is also the first and unique site having multi-lingual capabilities to deliver agro-advisory in a country like India where you have to deal with many languages. Agropedia aspires to organize and manage the widespread knowledge relevant to different agricultural practices of different regions by building up an agricultural e-community and strengthening the networks of that community. It aims to harness the information using social networking and knowledge models based on web 2.0 concepts. This is a platform where everyone, ranging from scientists, researchers, teachers, students, extension workers, farmers, traders and businessmen, can interact with each other. The agropedia is essentially a read-write web interface which has been developed using semantic web technologies that help the system relate concepts in a meaningful way. The progress made under the project led to roping in for more number of consortium partners under

"AGROPEDIA Phase-II" ZPD-IV, Kanpur NAIP was approved on April 18, 2006 and become effective for implementation on September 18, 2006. Phase 1 of the project, which involved identifying priority areas for research, inviting, peer reviewing and approving research sub-projects, was completed in March 2010. Phase 2 consists of implementation of the approved sub-projects and is in progress now. In all, 188 sub-projects have been approved under four components, which is more than three times the number envisaged at appraisal. due to the overwhelming response to three Calls for submission of proposal under the competitive mode and diversity of partner institutes, some of were implementing a World Bank-funded project for the first time, grounding of the approved consortia took more time, about 36 months to complete Phase 1, as compared with appraisal estimate of 18 months. The delay in Phase-1 (especially Call-3 sub-projects), and server drought in 2009 might not have allowed adequate time to complete sub-project objectives in some cases.

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With this in view, the closing date of NAIP is being extended by 18 months from December 31, 2012 to June 30, 2014 with the approval of World Bank and International Development Association (IDA). An extension of the closing date will also help scale up high impact technologies developed under Components 2,3 and 4 by promoting their dissemination and adoption by large number of farmers in the project areas. Many mega facilities being created under Component-1 require a reasonable time to consolidated and mainstream good outputs, during extended period such consolidation at national level would be achieved.

2. Overall Sub-project Objectives (Same for the partners: ICRISAT, UASR, ZPD-IV) To generate, aggregate and disseminate agriculture extension content. To evolve mechanisms to generate authentic, useful and timely extension content. To organize content is an easy to use semantic platform. To set up virtual extension platform in representative location that will help us analyze and

evaluate our exercise. To develop, strengthen and enhance existing platforms for organization and dissemination of

this content.

These can be summarized under the following activities

ACTIVITY 1

Extension Content

Mobilisation

2 Popularisati

on, Capacity

Building

3 Impact Assessme

nt

4 Virtual Extension

Mobilisation (VEA)

5 Knowledge

Model

6 Platform Enhancem

ent

ORGANISATIONS

IITK

ICRISAT

IIMC

UAS-R

ZPD-IV

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Overall Sub-project Objectives - IIHR, Bangalore Centre Objectives Responsible partners

Development of knowledge portal for Horticulture

IIT, Kanpur IIHR, Bangalore – for providing information of crops

Content mobilization of horticultural knowledge base

IIHR, Bangalore

Capacity building of the Scientists of the Project

IIT, Kanpur IIHR, Bangalore ICRISAT, Hyderabad

Overall Sub-project Objectives-DOR Objectives Responsible partners

Development of knowledge portal for annual oilseed crops viz., castor, sunflower, safflower, sesame, niger and linseed

IIT, Kanpur DOR,Hyderabad to furnish information of oilseed

crops

Content development and mobilization of oilseeds knowledge base through the website

DOR,Hyderabad IIT,Kanpur

Capacity building of Scientists in the Project

IIT, Kanpur DOR,Hyderabad ICRISAT, Hyderabad

3. Sub-project Technical Profile SNo Activity/Objective Monito

ring Indicators

Expected Output

Expected Outcome

1. Extension Content Mobilisation ICRISAT Revised and updated content of groundnut, pigeon pea, chickpea, sorghum & pearl millet Content of all the five mandated crops of ICRISAT i.e. Pigeonpea, Chickpea, Groundnut, Sorghum and pearl millet has been revised by the ICRISAT experts and mobilized on Agropedia website. The contents of Groundnut, Pearl Millet, Sorghum and chickpea have been revised /added to the agropedia repository. Hosted new certified knowledge nodes of sweet sorghum, pearl millet and

Review

At least 50

Achieved

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safflower. UAS-Raichur Content mobilization with respect to crop production, improvement, crop protection, harvest and post harvest process, market information etc., were developed for various field and horticultural crops, inland fisheries, live stock and poultry ZPD-IV, Kanpur Updating Phone directory of 81 KVKs of Zone-IV Content development on month wise text of package of practices Developed text & audio package of practices of important crops & Livestock

meetings

video clips in over all crop and fisheries content

Completed Completed In progress

2. Popularization, Capacity Building IIT-Kanpur Conducted 51 workshops at different institutes and KVK’s to train the students, agri experts and scientists Attended 29 workshops on agropedia and vKVK organized ICRISAT Seven workshops on agropedia and two on vKVK involving KVKs from Zone V (Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh) and Zone VIII (Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puduchery) and five sensitization meetings were organized. UAS-Raichur To research community, students, Govt. organizations, NGO’s and other staff of KVKs ZPD-IV, Kanpur 1 workshop completed and 1 workshop to be held on 19.03.2014 Conducted 3 Capacity building workshop

Extension Proposals Report and Review Meetings

1321 Total of over 225 scientists were trained/ sensitized. Over 500

Target achieved Target achieved In progress Target achieved

3. Social networking development, impact monitoring/assessment ZPD-IV, Kanpur Capacity building and knowledge networking of 81 KVKs and 100 farmers

Target achieved

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for each KVK Impact analysis of vKVK in 10 districts

4. Virtual Extension Activity (VEA) IIT-Kanpur Build a vKVK service more interactive in context of farmers & introduction of more interactive & advanced services in the vKVK platform. For example, the extension content can be delivered as learning objects over the phone. Scaled up vKVK telephony services for more simultaneous connections Integration of all the three platforms agropedia, vKVK and KVK-Net for ease of use and maintenance. ICRISAT Delivered over 3.0 lakh text and voice messages to more than 1,20000 farmers involving 20 KVKs in Andhra Pradesh (Mahabubnagar, Prakasham, Anantapur) in Karnataka (Gulbarga, Raichur, Dharwad, Hassan, Tumkur, Davanagere and Mysore, Haveri, Belgaum, Hulkoti) and in Tamilnadu (Madurai, Karur, Permabular, Namakkal) in Kerala (Cochin, Malappuram) and in Union Territory (Puducherry) UAS-Raichur Providing voice messages to farmers of different districts on various agriculture information’s ZPD-IV, Kanpur Implementation of vKVK by 81 KVKs Regular broad cost of voice messages to registered farmers

Knowledge sharing in extension by developing linkages with 191 KVK’s in 11 states and 1 UT 35,000 registered users 10,000

Target achieved 15,000 Target achieved In progress

5. Knowledge Models & Voice POP IIT-Kanpur Added content for Mango, potato, onion & cotton in wiki & blog and KMs

Created 27 KMs in total along with the partners

Target achieved

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Content for Voice Packade of Practices (POPs) Created 61 Voice POPs of different crops in both voice and text. 61 POPs in Hindi (The content has been taken from Department of Agriculture, UP, through their published book Krishi Manjusha) 3 POPs in Kannada It is available in both online (Web) and offline (Android App) mode. KrishiVoc: to compile the terminologies of Indian Agriculture in India. ICRISAT KM 1.0 of new crops- pearl millet, sweet sorghum, lentil, mung bean, urd bean, cowpea, safflower, castor and Maize were completed. Knowledge Models (KM 1.0) used in agropedia had limited purpose of aggregating content in any language. It was proposed to build KM 2.0 to facilitate drawing inferences and act as expert systems. KM 2.0 of pearl millet, sweet sorghum, pigeon pea, Groundnut, Sorghum, Chickpea and maize has been completed. UAS-Raichur Developing KMs for different crops and allied subjects ZPD-IV, Kanpur Urdbean Buffalo, Cabbage

Currently, approx 33,000 terms of agriculture has been compiled and arranged in hierarchy. KM for three crops, inland fisheries and live stock

Target achieved Target achieved Remaining some part of KM 2.0 & Pop

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6. Platform Enhancement Created KM platform for Oilseeds Agropedia, vKVK (web portal) upgraded to Drupal 7 (technology upgradation) Theme responsive agropedia is also available an offline android app.

Developed KM platform for Oilseeds: (http://oilseeds.agropedia.in/)

Target achieved

IIHR, Bangalore Centre

Development of knowledge portal for Horticulture Monitoring indicators Scanning through existing digital information including the portals Gathering and preparation of knowledge on horticulture crops Development horticultural portal

Expected outcome Credible digital horticulture knowledge database in the form of horticulture agropedia Increased knowledge information to farmers and other users

Expected output Increased horticultural production Higher knowledge and awareness to the end users in horticulture Content mobilization of horticultural knowledge base

Monitoring indicators

i. Reviewing the present knowledge objects ii. Preparation of knowledge objects

iii. Populating the portal with knowledge objects Expected outcome

Certified horticultural information in one web portal Participatory and sharing interaction between contributors (scientists) and users

(farmers, other groups) Higher number of visitors to the web portal

Expected output Increased horticultural production Higher knowledge and awareness to the end users in horticulture Capacity building of the Scientists of the Project

Monitoring indicators i. Training /workshops for capacity building of projects scientists

ii. Motivation of scientists to share and contribute to knowledge to the horticulture portal Expected outcome

Increased awareness among stake holders about the portal Higher number of contributors sharing the knowledge Higher number of visitors to the web portal

Expected output Increased horticultural production Higher knowledge and awareness to the end users in horticulture

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DOR Sub-project Technical Profile A) Development of knowledge portal for oilseeds

Monitoring indicators: Scanning through existing digital information including the portals Synthesizing the material for preparation of knowledge base on oilseeds Development of oilseeds portal

Expected output Trusted digital oilseeds knowledge database through oilseedsagropedia Flow of knowledge to the stakeholders in oilseeds Enhanced knowledge information to farmers and other users

Expected outcome Paves way for enhancement in Oilseeds production Increase in knowledge base of the stakeholders in oilseeds A handy tool for one stop information on oilseeds to the R&D and policy makers

B) Content mobilization of oilseeds knowledge base

Monitoring indicators Appraisal of the existing knowledge objects Characterization of the objects into different domains Preparation of knowledge objects Uploading the knowledge objects to the pedia

Expected output Authentic information on oilseeds in a single and unique portal. Two way communication with the oilseeds researchers and the users Higher number of vistors to the web portal

Expected outcome Paves way for enhancement in Oilseeds production Increase in knowledge base of the stakeholders in oilseeds A handy tool for one stop information on oilseeds to the R&D and policy makers

4. Baseline Analysis

(Baseline data on the pre-project situation supported by tables, charts, photographs) IIHR, Banglore Centre Presently, there is total lack of content of a horticultural crop in one web portal in digital form. Much of the websites of ICAR institutes and SAUs have little technical content though efforts are made of late to provide these informations. What is available is often not updated regularly. Although every organization has several useful research, educational/training and extension publications in print form, very few are available in the electronic form. There is also the old mindset of not sharing the knowledge with peers and stakeholders. This will include digitization and mobilization of related content and their validation and revision on a regular basis. Local content in local languages is another thing which is lacking. The respective All India Coordinated Projects could be involved to bring in the local content. Agropedia frame work will allow content in any form- word files, PDF files, pictures, videos, audio clips etc and in any Indian languages to be uploaded. Sensitization and building capacity of the scientific and technical personnel is the need

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of the hour. All the scientists need be trained to develop and upload content of diverse kind. They could also be trained to edit and share content through blogs, wikis etc. Keeping these points in view, the present proposal has been developed. DOR Oilseeds are cultivated in varied agro-ecological situations of the country. Information on oilseeds is isolated and scattered. Whatever information on oilseeds is prevalent is on a static mode and confined to limited aspects in oilseeds. No serious effort was made to collate and synthesize the information under a common umbrella. This was a limiting factor for stakeholders in oilseeds to access information. The time and cost of accessing the information was a matter of serious concern to all the users in the oilseeds sector. Although the ICAR institutes and the SAU's under the NARS system did have their own credentials on aspects pertaining to oilseeds, the visibility of the available information(technical reports, training manuals, monographs, research findings, popular articles, publications in vernacular language etc ) was poor since no serious efforts were made to popularize the knowledge information. The genesis of the agropedia on oilseeds did make an attempt to collate, synthesize and bring the knowledge aspects of oilseeds under a single umbrella digitally on a dynamic mode to help the users to access the information with ease. Being a two way communication platform, it can help in exchanging of knowledge on oilseeds and help users to keep abreast of the developments in oilseeds. The oilseeds agropedia is a continuous process with involvement of all the users to upload the content post certification.

5. Research Achievements with Summary IIT-Kanpur The project was launched on 1st April, 2011 and continuing till date. The project is the follow up of the earlier NAIP consortium project “Re-designing the farmer-extension-agricultural research/ education continuum in India with ICT-mediated knowledge management” led by ICRISAT with six other partners from January 2008 to June 2010. In 2011 the project was extended as “Engaging Farmers, Enriching Knowledge: Agropedia Phase II” and IIT-Kanpur became the lead partner. The consortium is led by IIT-Kanpur with ICRISAT, IIM-Calcutta, ICAR-ZPD-Kanpur and UAS-Raichur as Consortium partners. From April 2013 IIM Calcutta not seemed interested in taking up the extension proposal and so dropped as a partner. Since, April 2013 Directorate of Oilseeds Research (DOR), Directorate of Seed Research (DSR), DGR, Directorate of Oil Palm Research (DOPR) organisations joined the project as new partners. The major activities of the project are to enhance and populate agropedia portal, capacity building and design, develop and test a virtual extension services (VES) platform for delivering services to the farmers. The objective-wise progress made by IIT-Kanpur as a partner is reported below: I. Popularization, Capacity Building 51 workshops were conducted on agropedia, vKVK and KVK-Net and attended 29 such

workshops 1321 scientists, students, agri-experts and scientist were trained on agropedia 2.0, vKVK and

KVK-Net platforms.

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TRAINING/WORKSHOPS PHOTOGRAPHS

IASRI, Delhi Workshop

GBPUA&T, Pantnagar Workshop

IVRI, Bareilly Workshop

II. Virtual Extension Activity (VEA) vKVK (voice Krishi Vigyan Kendra) is developed by IIT-Kanpur in a consortium mode as part of ICAR-NAIP supported project entitled “Engaging Farmers, Enriching Knowledge - Agropedia Phase II” vKVK is a platform that connects KVKs with farmers through internet and mobile technology. The objective here is to bridge the gap between the farmers and the KVK expert. vKVK service started in August, 2011 as a pilot project in four states with the official partners viz International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)-Hyderabad, University of Agricultural Sciences-Raichur and ZPD-IV.

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Initially, the service was started in 24 KVKs and is now being up-scaled in 191 KVKs covering more than 35,000 farmers. The vKVK service is cutting across all the service providers and can be accessed flawlessly on even low end mobile handsets. All vKVK services are free of cost to the farmers.

Statistics of vKVK

vKVK Report (up to 31/12/13)State Number of

Farmers No. of Voice

messages Total Voice

messages sent No. of KVKs

Karnataka 14475 1371 1792605 22Uttar Pradesh 8881 2138 397031 68 Uttarakhand 1451 209 27821 13 Andhra Pradesh 1014 365 86919 05 Rajasthan 1492 182 26056 17 Gujarat 757 116 11705 10 Bihar 2901 446 79593 22Kerala 1219 27 15597 03Tamil Nadu 2443 158 84871 05Pondicherry 309 4 1236 01Assam 213 22 4452 03Madhya Pradesh 152 15 165 22Total 35307 5053 2528051 191

Training on vKVK and KVK-Net at RAU, Samastipur

Training on vKVK and KVK-Net at KVK Saharanpur

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III. Knowledge Models Application specific, normalized generic knowledge models Knowledge models of production technology for crops like Mango, Potato, Onion and Cotton Added content for Mango, potato, onion & cotton in wiki & blog and KMs Created 27 KMs in total along with the partners and uploaded on agropedia homepage Voice POP created for 61 crops in Hindi and Kannada

IV. Platform Enhancement: Agropedia has been up for close to five years. The challenge was to create a platform, which is conceptually simple, easy to use and rich in features incorporating the latest technological advances. Given these, Agropedia 2.0 has been redesigned and built completely ground up. It is Knowledge Management Platform, as against a simple content repository. Any object loaded into the platform, we call them knowledge objects, quickly arranges itself into a web of relationships, automatically computed. agropedia theme regenerated in such a way that it is rendered well on multiple platforms including tablets & mobiles. agropedia is deployed as a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform. There are many agropedias, one for each Institute, Crop, Sector, University etc. Each of these agropedias has their own administrator, editors, users and completely managed by the respective owners. However, there is one agropedia, the ICAR agropedia, which is the ‘mother’ agropedia. The ICAR agropedia is the union of all the knowledge objects in all the other agropedia. Every insert into the ‘child’ agropedia automatically goes into the ICAR agropedia. agropedia is also available as an offline android app. Developed KM platform for Oilseeds: (http://oilseeds.agropedia.in/) and also for 35 other Universities/ Institutes. Like GBPUA&T, IISR, IVRI, IGFRI, livestock, CAU, NRC, MAIZE, MANAGE, IASRI, NRCPB, NBPGR, CPCRI, SBI etc.

vKVK: voice Krishi Vigyan Kendra the delivery service which is integrated with the KM platform. It is built on Freeswitch (telephone exchange software) and Drupal. Has services E2F (Expert to Farmer). Works on platforms W2M (Web to Mobile) and M2M (Mobile to Mobile)

Android apps for Voice POP: Developed and uploaded Voice POPs in two languages in Hindi for Uttar Pradesh (http://agropedialabs.iitk.ac.in/pop/ ) and in Kannada for UAS-Raichur ( http://agropedialabs.iitk.ac.in/pop_uasr/ ) in almost all the crops.

KrishiVoc: The automatic tagging technology is also going through a revamp. A more powerful faceted tagger is being developed. The earlier Knowledge Models are being revamped with KrishiVoc, a comprehensive agriculture vocabulary of Indian Agriculture terms which will be used for tagging. Other feature of agropedia: OpenAgri: developed under the sponsorship of ICAR, NAIP is a much more focused research space provided by agropedia. Openagri is a content management platform for hosting agriculture documents.It has document types like Journal Articles, Conference Papers, Book, Book Chapters, Proceedings, Preprints, Multimedia content etc.

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IIHR, Bangalore Centre

The horticultural crops though grown in about 8 per cent area but contributing to more than 24 per cent to the total agricultural output and provides employment to about 19 per cent of the total agricultural labour force. Despite its huge potential, use of ICTs in providing critical information to the farmers is rather poor. An attempt is made here to develop architecture for aggregating, organizing and dissemination of information through a development of horti portal. Though the project was included only during May 2013 onwards, significant achievement has been made in development of horticultural portal viz., horti.agropedia.in. The brief achievements in horticulture agropedia are given under.

Development of horticultural portal

The portal ‘horti.agropedia.in’ developed by the IIT Kanpur under Agropedia 2.0 (http://agropedia.in) has deployed as a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform which is conceptually simple, easy to use and rich in features incorporating the latest technological advances. The mother ICAR agropedia is the union of all the knowledge objects in all the other child agropedia’s like horticulture, oil seeds, ICRISAT, etc.,. Every insert into the ‘child’ agropedia automatically goes into the ICAR agropedia. The screen shot of the portal is given under in Fig 1.

Fig 1 : Home page of horti.agropedia.in

Content management of digital horticulture knowledge

During last nine months nearly 1014 horticulture knowledge objects were created and populated into website (horti.agropedia.in). Nearly 42 voluntary crop experts and few progressive farmers were registered themselves. The knowledge objects were developed based on the interaction with the crop experts as well as from the published information from the research organizations like IIHR, Bangalore, NRC on Grapes, NRC on onion and Garlic, TNAU Coimbatore, etc. The contents are mostly in English (997) and few were in Hindi (10) and Kannada (7). The brief analysis of the contents uploaded is given under following subheads:

Format of digital horticulture knowledge: The contents for the horticultural portal comprises of all four forms viz., documents, images, videos and audio formats. The ‘Documents’ format constitutes the major portion of the digital information accounting for about 68 per cent of the contents. The break-up of the digital knowledge is given under.

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Sl No Digital knoweldge objects Number

1. Documents 976

2. Images 440

3. Videos 14

4. Audio 8

Total digital objects 1438

Table 1: Number of horticulture knowledge digital objects in horti.agropedia.in

Crop-wise digital horticulture knowledge: More than one thousand digital horticultural objects mostly on document format were populated into database by various users during last nine months in operation. The major content was found in mango crop with 71 digital information in all four formats and chilli crop contains about 65 knowledge objects. The details of major crops in the database are given in Table 2. The information under various crops is developed under various aspects of crops such as varieties, nursery management, crop production, crop protection, crop improvement and crop utilizations. Even information on economics of production and marketing including prices, where ever available, were included in the development of digital horticultural knowledge units.

Table 2: Crop wise classification of horticulture digital knowledge in horti.agropedia.in Sl No Crop names Number of digital knoweldge

1. Mango 71

2. Chilli 65

3. Onion 49

4. Grapes 45

5. Beans 25

6. Cauliflower 24

7. Banana 23

8. Papaya 19

9. Okra 18

10. Pea 16

11. Brinjal 14

12. Guava 13

13. Others 632

14. Total 1014

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Type of the horticulture knowledge digital objects : The digital knoweldge was mostly based on the research reports (961 out of 1014 objects). Now these informations could be directly available in digital forms to all the stakeholders of horticultural production which other wise was difficult to access as they need to go to the institutions/organisations to collect the data. Nearly 16 success stories of the farmers were also made available for the web users. The demonstration results of 16 crops were also available. The break-up of the type of the digital information is given under.

Table 3: Type of horticulture knowledge digital objects in horti.agropedia.in Sl No Type of reports Number of digital

knoweldge

1. Research Reports 961

2. Success Stories 16

3. Demonstrations 15

4. Miscellaneous 22

Total objects 1014 Important images available in the horti.agropedia.in

Papaya – Arka Prabhat Custard Apple - Arka Sahan

Tomato- Triple resistant and high yielding hybrid - Arka Rashak

Chilli hybrid, Arka Meghana

Arka Neelachal Kesri – From CHES, Bhabaneswar (IIHR, Bangalore)

Watermelon - Arka Mrudula

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French bean Arka Sharat Peas variety – Arka Priya

Sealer cum healer Technology for Mango Trunk borer management

Bush Dolichs – Arka Sowmya Arka Sona, Onion variety

YVMV resistant Okra

A new Yard Long Bean Selection Arka Mangala for high yield

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Onion Field day cum training programme” on Climate Resilient Technologies (CRTs) held

at Hirenallur village of Karnataka

Management Practices for Aswagandha

Important Videos available in horti.agropedia.in

Prosperity Through Quality Seedling Production Nursary (English).VOB IIHR, Bangalore Seedless grape cultivation in Subtropics, kannada IIHR, Bangalore Integrated management practices for Sustainaible food Security, Kannada IIHR

Bangalore Banana Cultivation for livelihood security English IIHR Bangalore Prosperity Through Quality Seedling Production Nursary (Kannada) IIHR, Bangalore Prosperity Through Quality Seedling Production Nursary (Hindi).VOB IIHR Bangalore Mushroom Cultivation (English) IIHR Bangalore Green house Capsicum (Kannada) Part 1 IIHR Bangalore Complete Feed Block Hindi IIHR Bangalore Complete Feed Block English IIHR Bangalore Complete Feed Block Kannada IIHR Bangalore Capsicum Cultivation in Green House, English IIHR, Bangalore Mushroom Cultivation, kannada, IIHR Bangalore IIHR Prosperity Through Quality Seedling Production Nursery

The audio knowledge objects uploaded to the horticulture portal

Banana Cultivation Radio Talk Hindi mpeg4, IIHR Bangalore Bio Pesticide Radio Talk Hindi mpeg4, IIHR Bangalore Guava Cultivation Radio Talk Hindi mpeg4, IIHR Bangalore Marigold Cultivation Radio Talk Hindi mpeg4, IIHR Bangalore

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Mango Orchard Management Radio Talk Hindi mpeg4, IIHR Bangalore Rose Cultivation Radio Talk Hindi mpeg4, IIHR Bangalore IPM Tomato Radio Talk Hindi mpeg4, IIHR Bangalore Capsicum Cultivation Radio Talk Hindi mpeg4, IIHR Bangalore ICRISAT, Hyderbad The project was launched on 1st April, 2011 and continuing till date. The project is the follow up of the earlier NAP consortium project “Re-designing the farmer-extension-agricultural research/ education continuum in India with ICT-mediated knowledge management” led by ICRISAT with six other partners from January 2008 to June 2010. The consortium is led by IIT-Kanpur with ICRISAT, IIM-Calcutta, ICAR-ZPD-Kanpur and UAS-Raichur as Consortium partners. The major activities of the project are to enhance and populate agropedia portal, capacity building and design, develop and test a virtual extension services (VES) platform for delivering services to the farmers. The objective-wise progress made by ICRISAT is reported below:

I. Extension Content Mobilization

Revised and updated content of groundnut, pigeon pea, chickpea, sorghum & pearl millet

Content of all the mandated crops of ICRISAT i.e. Pigeonpea, Chickpea, Groundnut, Sorghum, Sweet Sorghum and pearl millet has been revised by the ICRISAT experts and mobilized on Agropedia website.

Hosted 250 new certified knowledge nodes of sweet sorghum, pearl millet, safflower, Maize and castor.

ICRISAT’s total contribution is equivalent to 1500 web pages.

Total number of Knowledge objects in ICRISAT Agropedia is 912; the knowledge objects are related ICRISAT mandate crops i.e. Pigeonpea, Chickpea, Groundnut, Sorghum, Sweet Sorghum and pearl millet.

Total number of documents in ICRISAT Agropedia is 700, and the total number of images is 1109.

Hosted 178 Videos of sweet sorghum, pearl millet, Sorghum, Groundnut, Pigeonpea and Chickpea.

Totally 66 Registered users are there in ICRISAT Agropedia.

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Workshop on Digital Knowledge repository of Pearl millet

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ICRISAT Agropedia Browse Page: Snap Shot

II. Capacity Building: Seven workshops on agropedia and two on vKVK involving KVKs from Zone V (Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh) and Zone VIII (Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puduchery) and five sensitization meetings were organized. A total of over 225scientists were trained/ sensitized.

Workshops on Agropedia, vKVK and KVK-Net at ICRISAT

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III. Virtual Extension Activity (VEA) The mobile phone- based VES platform developed by IIT Kanpur was pilot tested partnering with four KVKs in Karnataka and one in Andhra Pradesh. Initially, the advisories were disseminated as text messages, which were later upgraded to voice messages. The text messages were not fully effective as it required farmers to be literate- to read the text. Secondly, majority of the mobile phones the farmers did not support local fonts. The advisories as voice messages, however, could overcome these deficiencies and farmers were very happy with them. It also had the human element rather than the faceless text messages. The platform is called Voice-KVK or vKVK for short. This was basically meant to empower KVK personnel in using ICT in their outreach activities. The KVK staff was trained to handle the platform, develop and record voice messages and disseminate them through use of portal as well as mobile phones to registered farmers. During 2011-12, three KVKs were involved which was later enlarged to include twenty more KVKs in 2012-13. As of date, ICRISAT has delivered over 300,000 voice messages to more than 1,24000 farmers involving 20 KVKs in Andhra Pradesh (Mahabubnagar, Prakasham, Anantapur) in Karnataka state (Gulbarga, , Dharwad, Hassan, Tumkur, Davanagere, Haveri, Belgaum, Hulkoti and Mysore) in Tamil Nadu (Karur, Namakkal, Perambalur, Madurai) in Kerala ( Malappuram and Calicut ) and in Puducherry A pilot study involving about 200 farmers was carried out in Karnataka to assess the feedback and impact of these agro-advisories. IV. Knowledge Models 2.0 KM 1.0 of new crops- pearl millet, sweet sorghum, lentil, mung bean, urd bean, cowpea, safflower, castor and Maize were completed. Knowledge Models (KM 1.0) used in agropedia had limited purpose of aggregating content in any language. It was proposed to build KM 2.0 to facilitate drawing inferences and act as expert systems. KM 2.0 of pearl millet, sweet sorghum, pigeon pea ,groundnut, sorghum, chickpea and maize has been completed. UAS-Raichur

Activity-I: Extension Content Mobilization: A) Content on Horticulture crops Uploaded

Photographs and Videos Production technology Related

Chilli treated seeds Chilli Nursery raising Field preparation Transplanting of Chilli

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Videos

Pomegranate Fruit load per plant Pomegranate Flowering Pomegranate Bahar treatment

Pests

Mealy bug infestation Thrips damage on Whitefly infestation

On Pomegranate Pomegranate fruit on Pomegranate

Downward curling Upward curling Citrus fruit sucking moth

(chilli Mite) (chilli thrips)

Brinjal Shoot and fruit borer damage Okra Fruit borer Larva feeds on pod

Fruit borer Damaged fruit in Tomato Banana Rhizome weevil Grub damage

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Videos

Pomegranate fruit sucking moth Chilli mite Chilli thrip

Diseases

BLB symptoms on Pomegranate Pomegranate Anthracnose Banana Anthracnose leaves and fruit

Chilli Anthracnose Chilli Powdery mildew Tomato Spotted Wilt

Videos

Chilli powdery Mildew Chilli Anthracnose Pomegranate Bacterial leaf blight

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B) Content on Field crops Uploaded

Title of contents Name of Field crops

Production Technology

Protection Technology Total Number of images

Pests

Disease

Green gram

Botanical Description, Climate and Soil Requirement, Origin and Distribution, Economic Importance, Field Preparation, Varieties ,Non cash inputs, Inputs Requirement ,Sowing time, Weed Management, Water Management, Harvesting and Yield

Aphid, Bihar Hairy caterpillar, Blister Beetle, Blue Butterfly, Jassids , Gram Pod Borer, Pod fly, Pod sucking bugs, Pod weevil, Spingid moth, Spotted Pod Borer, Stem fly and Thrips

Anthracnose, Bacterial Leaf Blight, Cercospora leaf spot, Leaf crinkle disease, Macrophomina Blight, Yellow mosaic, Powdery Mildew, Root Rot and Leaf Blight, Rust

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Black gram Anthracnose, Bacterial Leaf Blight, Cercospora leaf spot

Powdery Mildew, Root Rot and Leaf Blight, Rust, Stem canker, Yellow Mosaic , Leaf Crinkle

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Sunflower Bihar Hairy Caterpillar, Head Borer, Jassids, Mealy bug, Semilooper, Thrips, Tobacco Caterpillar and Whitefly.

Downy mildew, Powdery mildew, Alternaria leaf spot, Necrosis, Rust

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Bajra Bajra Stem borer, Shoot fly and Pink Stem borer

Downy Mildew Ergot, Rust , Head Mold , Bipolaris Leaf Spot , Cercospora Leaf Spot, Curvularia Leaf Spot

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Cotton Alternaria leaf spot, Damping-off, Root Rot , Anthracnose , Bacterial blight, Boll rot, Cercospora leaf spot, Grey mildew or Areolate mildew, Rust, Cotton wilt

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Pests

Diseases

Alternaria leaf spot of Cotton Cotton Rust Ergot of Bajra Downy mildew of

Bajra

C) Content on Inland Fishery Uploaded

Inland Fishery

Title of Contents Number of images

Number of Videos

Freshwater Fish Culture

Site Selection, Pond Construction, Breedings, Fish Hatchery Managements, Transportation Of Fish Seeds, Identification Of Eggs, Spawn, Fry And Fingerlings Of Indian Major Carps, Nursery Pond Managements , Rearng Pond Managements, Stocking Pond Managements, Feed Managements, Water Quality Management, Harvesting, Disease Managements, Composite Fish Culture, Integrated Fish Farming methods, Air breathing fish culture, Trout culture, cost, Post Harvest Techniques, Marketing of fish and post harvest technology

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Algal Bloom in Fish Pond Aquatic Birds & Management Aquatic Insects & Management Bag feeding of Fish Fish Cum Cattle Farming Fish Cum Duck Forming Fish Cum Poultry Farming Fish Pond Bottom Drying Harvesting of Fish From Pond Manuring the Stocking Fish Pond Seed Packing & Transportation Site & Soil Quality for Fish Form Construction Watering the Fish Pond

Green Gram Spinged moth

Larva

Sunflower Leaf Skeletonisation

Sunflower Head borer damage

Chaffy grain Symptom (Bajra Shoofly)Bihar Hairy Caterpillar

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Photos and videos

Cattle cum fish farming Pig cum Fish Farming Seed Packing

Total harvesting in the fish pond Bags Feeding Applying of poultry manure

in stocking pond

Applying organic manure in Applying of lime in

Stocking pond stocking pond Seed Transportation Vehicle

Intra muscular injection Construction of dyke

Videos

Manuring the stocking Fish Pond Algal Bloom in Fish Pond Seed Packing & Transportation

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D) Content on Post Harvest Technology and Value added products Uploaded

Value added products related photos and videos

Fish Balls Fish cutlets fish Wafers

Fish Soup Powder Prawn pickle Fish Balls

Title of Contents Number of images

Number of Videos

Chilli Chilli Solar Tunnel dryer 2 1 ( Chilli drying)

Pomegranate Flow chat on Pomegranate Jelly, Sauce, Syrup, Juice, Wine, Anar rub and Anardana

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Fish Preparation of Fish cutlets, Fish Balls, Fish Pickle, Fish Soup Powder, Fish Wafers. Fish Sausage, Smoked fish and Fish Finger

9 3 (Fish Deboner, Fish Sausage, Smoked fish)

Others Aloevera (3): Alma Juice, Aloevera Inner Gel Powder, Whole Leaf Aloevera Powder) Milk (3) : Flovoured milk, Milk peda, Paneer Ice crusher 1: (Pedal cum power operated ice crusher) Jam:1 (Mixed fruit Jam) Total : 8 videos

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Pomegranate Sauce Fish Fingers Pomegranate Jelly

Videos:

Preparation of smoked fish Chilli Drying Fish Deboner

E) Content on Stallfed Goats and Sheep Rearing:

Title of Contents

Number of Images

Intensive And Semi-

Intensive Sheep And Goat

Rearing

Introduction, Sheep and Goat Rearing, Production System, Breeds, Housing, Feeding methods, Fodder Production, Silage making, Feeding Management, Feeding ewes in different stages, feeding rams for breeding, feeding lambs, calendar of sheep management practices, breeding management, young stock management, disease control and management (Blue tongue (BT),peste-des-petits, Ruminants (PPR)),Foot & Mouth disease, Sheep pox, Goat pox, orf, enterotoxaemia,Hemorrhagic septicemia, Anthrax, Foot rot, Listeriosis, Brucellosis of sheep,Tetanus parasite control, General disease prevention and control management, farm appliances, handling and transport, vices of sheep and goat, nutrient management, frequently asked questions in sheep and goat husbandry,

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Photos

Elevated floor shed for Sheep and goat Silage making Anthrax disease

Foot and Mouth disease Foot rot Disease

F) Extension content of all mandate crops of Phase-I & II updating regularly.

G) Package of practice (Pops): Package of practice in text form for major field and horticulture crops published by UAS, Raichur,

Dharwad and Bangalore was collected, digitalized and uploaded onto uasr.agropedia.in website and

updating it.

Package of Practices of Field crops of UASD &UASR Uploaded in kannada language on to uasr.agropedia.in website

Package of Practices of Horticulture crops of UAS, Bangalore Uploaded in kannada language on to uasr.agropedia.in website

Pigeon pea Groundnut Chilli Cucumber

Chickpea Maize Sapota Carrot

Sugarcane Safflower Brinjal Bitter gourd

Rice Sunflower Tomato Coconut

Green gram Sorghum. Potato Gerbera

Urd Horse gram Bhendi Onion

Cowpea Cotton Coriander Pomegranate

Soybean Castor Mango Papaya

Sesame Wheat Lemon Fenugreek

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Niger Tobacco Chrysanthemum Fig

Radish Spinach

Cardamom Beet root

Jasmine Bird of Paradise

Sweet Potato Rose

Cluster bean

POP Crops Home page

H) Voice Package of practice (Pops): Voice Package of practice of Paddy, Pigeon pea, Cotton, Chickpea and Chilli developed and uploaded on to uasr.agropedia.in website.

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I) List of General topics from POPs uploaded in Kannada: (UASD&UASR) Sl.No Title of Topic (Same title translated in English)1 ಜೈ ಕ ಪೀಡೆನಾಶಕಗಳು ಮತುತ್ ರೋಗನಾಶಕಗಳು (Bio pesticides) 2 ಸುಬಾಬುಲ್ ಹ ರೆಲೆ ಗೊಬಬ್ರದಿಂದ ರಸಗೊಬಬ್ರಗಳ ಉ ತಾಯ (Savings in chemical fertilizers

using Subabul green manuring) 3 ಹತಿತ್ ಮತುತ್ ಗೋ ನ ಜೋಳಗಳ ಲ್ ಹ ರೆಲೆ ಹೊದಿಕೆ ಬೆಳೆಗಳ ಉಪ ೕಗ (Use of green leaf mulching

in Cotton and Maize)

4 ಸಸಾಯ್ವಶೇಷಗ ಂದ ಕಾಂ ೕಸ್ಟ್ ತಯಾರಿಕೆ, ಪರ್ ೕಜನಗಳು ,ಭೂಮಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಧಾನ, ೕಷಕಾಂಶಗಳ ಪರ್ಮಾಣ ಮತುತ್ ನಿವರ್ಹಣೆ. (Preparation of compost from crop residues: Uses,

Method soil application, Nutrient percentage and management ) 5 ಸಣಬು ಬೀಜೋತಾಪ್ದನೆ (Sun hemp Seed Production) 6 ಮಳ ೆನೀರು ಸಂಗರ್ಹಣೆಯ ಧ ಧಾನಗಳು (Different methods of rain water Conservation) 7 ಮಳ ೆನೀರು ಕೊಯುಲ್ ಮತುತ್ ಅಂತಜರ್ಲ ಮರುಪೂರಣ (Rain water harvesting and Ground water

recycling) 8 ಹರಿದು ಹೋಗುವ ನೀರನುನ್ ಹೊಂಡಗಳ ಲ್ ಶೇಖರಿ ಉಪ ೕಗಿಸುವುದು (Storing of flowing water in

ponds and using) 9 ಹ ರು ಗೊಬಬ್ರಗಳು (Green Manures) 10 ಅ ೕಲಾಲ್ವನುನ್ ಬೆಳೆಸುವ ಕರ್ಮ ಮತುತ್ ಉಪ ೕಗಿಸುವ ಕರ್ಮ (Cultivation method of Azolla and

Uses) 11 ಅ ೕಲಾಲ್ದ ಲ್ರುವ ೕಷಕಾಂಶಗಳು ಮತುತ್ ಪರ್ಮಾಣ (Nutrients and their percentage in Azolla) 12 ಎರೆಗೊಬಬ್ರದ ಉಪ ೕಗದಿಂದ ಮಣಿಣ್ನ ಲ್ ಆಗುವ ಭೌತಿಕ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಗಳು (Physical changes in soil

due to use of Vermicompost) 13 ಎರೆಗೊಬಬ್ರದ ವೈ ಷೆಟ್ೖಗಳು (Importance of Vermicompost) 14 ಎರೆಹುಳು ನ ವೈರಿಗಳು ಮತುತ್ ನಿವರ್ಹಣೆ (Enemies of Earthworms and their management) 15 ಎರೆಗೊಬಬ್ರದ ಉತಾಪ್ದನೆ (Production of Vermicompost) 16 ಸಾವಯವ ಮಡಿಯ ಲ್ ತೇವಾಂಶ ಕಾಪಾಡುವುದು (Moisture management in Organic pit) 17 ಎರೆಗೊಬಬ್ರ ತಯಾರಿಸುವ ಧಾನ (Method of Preparation of Vermicompost) 18 ಎರೆಹುಳುನ ಜೀ ನ ಚರಿತೆರ್ (Life cycle of Earthworm) 19 ಮಣುಣ್ ಮತುತ್ ನೀರಿನ ಸಂರಕಷ್ಣೆ (Soil and Water management) 20 ಎರೆಹುಳು ಗೊಬಬ್ರದ ಲ್ರುವ ೕಷಕಾಂಶಗಳ ಪರ್ಮಾಣ (Nutrient percentage in Vermicompost) 21 ಜಲಾನಯನ ಅಭಿವೃದಿಧ್ ಹಾಗೂ ಖು ಕ್ ಬೇಸಾಯ (Irrigation improvement and Rain fed

agriculture) 22 ಹ ರು ಗೊಬಬ್ರಗಳು ಪರ್ ೕಜನಗಳು (Uses of Green manures) 23 ಎರೆಹುಳು ಗೊಬಬ್ರದ ಲ್ರುವ ೕಷಕಾಂಶಗಳ ಪರ್ಮಾಣ (Nutrient percentage in Vermicompost) 24 ಅ ೕಲಾಲ್ ಜೈ ಕಗೊಬಬ್ರ (Azolla Biofertilizer)

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25 ಭತತ್ದ ಬೆಳೆಗೆ ನೀ ಹ ರು ಪಾಚಿಯ ಬಳಕೆ ಧಾನ (Method of Use of Blue Green Algae in Rice Crop)

26 ನೀ ಹ ರು ಪಾಚಿ (Blue Green Algae) 27 ಜೈ ಕ ಗೊಬಬ್ರಗಳ ಬಳಕೆ ಧಾನಗಳು (Methods of Use of Biofertilizer) 28 ಜೈ ಕ ಗೊಬಬ್ರಗಳು (Biofertilizers) 29 ಎರೆಹುಳು ಕೃ ಯ ಆಥಿರ್ಕತೆ (Economics of Vermicompost) 30 ಕೃ ಯ ಲ್ ಎರೆಗೊಬಬ್ರದ ಉಪ ೕಗ (Use of Vermicompost in Agriculture) 31 ಎರೆಜಲ ಮತುತ್ ಅದರಿಂದ ಪಡೆಯುವ ಧಾನ (Vermiwash and Method of getting it) 32 ಜಲಾನಯನ ಅಭಿವೃದಿಧ್ ಹಾಗೂ ಖು ಕ್ ಬೇಸಾಯ (Irrigation improvement and Rain fed

agriculture) 33 ಹ ರು ಗೊಬಬ್ರಗಳು ಪರ್ ೕಜನಗಳು (Uses of Green manures)

J) Certified Knowledge:

Certified Knowledge published through research bulletins, extension bulletins and any other publications of UAS, Raichur and other Institutions Uploaded in Kannada: Source: ಕೃ ಶವ್ ಾಯ್ಲಯ, ಾಯಚೂರು ಅ ವೃ ಧ್ ಪ ರುವ ಸು ಾ ತ ತ ಗಳು ಮತುತ್ ಅವರ್ಗಳ

ೕ ೂೕ ಾಪ್ದ ಾ ಾಂ ರ್ಕ ಪರ್ಥಮ ಮು ಾರ್ಣ, 2012, ಾ. ಬಸ ೕಗೌಡ ಮತುತ್ ರ್ೕ. . ೖ. ೂೕಕೇಶ್, ಕೃ ಶವ್ ಾಯ್ಲಯ, ಾಯಚೂರು

Sl. NO

Title of Topic

1 ನವಣೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಬೀಜೋತಾಪ್ದನಾ ಕರ್ಮಗಳು (Methods of Seed Production of Foxtail millet) 2 ನವಣೆ - ಎಸ್.ಐ.ಎ 2644 ತ ಯ ಶೇಷ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು

(Special feature of S.I.A. 2644 variety of Foxtail millet) 3 ಭತತ್ ಬೀಜದ ಕನಿಷಟ್ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು (Minimal features of Rice seed) 4 ಭತತ್ ಬೀಜೋತಾಪ್ದನೆಯ ಲ್ ಅನುಸರಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಕರ್ಮಗಳು (Methods Followed in Rice seed

production) 5 ಭತತ್/ಗಂಗಾವತಿ ಸೋನಾ ತ ಯ ಶೇಷ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು (Special Features of Rice/Gangavathi Sona

Variety) 6 ಟೊ ೕಟೊ - ಪಿ.ಟಿ.ಆರ್-6 ತ ಯ ಶೇಷ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು (Special features of Tomato-P.T.R-6

variety) 7 ಆಗಸೆ - ಎನ್.ಎಲ್ 115 (ರತಿಕಾ) ತ ಯ ಶೇಷ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು

(Special feature of Flax seed – N.L.115 (Ratika) Variety) 8 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೀಜ ಕನಿಷಟ್ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು (Characteristics of Chick pea seed) 9 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಸುಧಾರಿತ ಬೀಜೋತಾಪ್ದನೆ ತಾಂತಿರ್ಕತೆಗಳು (Techniques of improved seed

production) 10 ಕಾಬೂ ಕಡಲೆ/ಎಂ-ಎನ್-ಕೆ-1 ತ ಯ ಶೇಷ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು

(Special features of Kabuli Chick pea/M-N-K-1 Variety)

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11 ಹೆಸರು ಬೀಜದ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು (Characteristics of Green gram seeds) ಬೀಜದ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು ಜದ

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ಹೆಸರು ಬೀಜೋತಾಪ್ದನೆಯ ಲ್ ಅನುಸರಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಸುಧಾರಿತ ಕರ್ಮಗಳು (Methods Fallowed in Green gram improved seed production) ಹೆಸರು /ಬಿ.ಜಿ.ಎಸ್-9 ತ ಯ ಶೇಷ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು (Special features of Green gram/ B.G.S-9 variety)

14 ತೊಗರಿ ಬೀಜದ ಕನಿಷಟ್ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು (Characteristics of Pigeon pea) 15 ತೊಗರಿ ಬೀಜೋತಾಪ್ದನೆಯ ಲ್ ಅನುಸರಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಸುಧಾರಿತ ಕರ್ಮಗಳು

(Methods Fallowed in Pigeon pea improved seed production) 16 ತೊಗರಿ/ಟಿ.ಎಸ್ - 3 ಆರ್ ತ ಯ ಶೇಷ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು (Special features of Pigeon pea/T.S.R 3

variety) 17 ಸಂಕರಣ ಸೂಯರ್ಕಾಂತಿ ಬೀಜೋತಾಪ್ದನೆಯ ಲ್ ಅನುಸರಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಸುಧಾರಿತ ಕರ್ಮಗಳು

(Methods Fallowed in Hybrid Sunflower improved seed production) 18 ಸೂಯರ್ಕಾಂತಿ ನೇರ ತ - ಆರ್.ಎಸ್.ಎಫ್. -901 ಶೇಷ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು (Special features of

Sunflower/R.S.F.V -901 variety) 19 ಸೂಯರ್ಕಾಂತಿ/ಆರ್.ಎಸ್.ಎಫ್.ಹೆಚ್-130 ತ ಯ ಶೇಷ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು (Special features of

Sunflower/R.S.F.H -130 variety) 20 ಶೇಂಗಾ ಬೀಜದ ಲ್ರಬೇಕಾದ ಕನಿಷಟ್ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ಗಳು (Characteristics of Ground nut) 21 ಶೇಂಗಾ ಬೀಜೋತಾಪ್ದನೆಯ ಲ್ ಅನುಸರಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಸುಧಾರಿತ ಕರ್ಮಗಳು

(Methods Fallowed in Ground nut improved seed production) 22 ಶೇಂಗಾ/( ಜೇತಾ) ಆರ್ 2001-2 ತ ಯ ಶೇಷ ಗುಣಧಮರ್ (Special feature of Ground nut/R 2001-

2 variety) Source : ಕನಾರ್ಟಕ ಕಡಲೆ ಬೀಜೋತಾಪ್ದನೆಯ ಕೈಪಿಡಿ, ICRISAT, Hyderabad & UAs, Dharwad 23 ಕಡಲೆಯ ಲ್ ಬೀಜ ಸಂಸಕ್ರಣೆ ಮತುತ್ ಸಂಗರ್ಹಣೆ (Production and Storage of Chick pea seed) 24 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಲ್ ಕೊಯುಲ್ ಮಾಡುವದು ಮತುತ್ ಒಕುಕ್ವರ್ದು (Harvesting and Threshing in Chick pea) 25 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಲ್ ಬೆರಕೆ ತೆಗೆಯು ಕೆ (Nipping in Chick pea) 26 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಲ್ ತುಕುಕ್ ರೋಗ/ ಭಂಡಾರ ರೋಗ (ಯೂರೋಮೈ ಸ್ ಸೈಸರ್ ಎರಿಯಾಟಿನಿ) ನಿವರ್ಹಣೆ

(Rust in Chick pea (Uromyces) and management) 27 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಲ್ ಗೊಡುಡ್ ರೋಗ ನಿವರ್ಹಣೆ (Management of Sterility mosaic disease in Chick pea) 28 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಲ್ ಗೊಡುಡ್ ರೋಗ (Sterility mosaic disease in Chick pea) 29 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಲ್ ಬೂದಿ ರೋಗ ನಿವರ್ಹಣೆ (Management of Powdery mildew disease in Chick) 30 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಲ್ ಬೂದಿ ರೋಗ (Powdery mildew disease in Chick) 31 ಕಡಲೆಯ ಲ್ ನೆಟೆರೋಗ/ ಡಿ ರೋಗ/ ಸೊರಗು ರೋಗ ನಿವರ್ಹಣೆ (Management of Wilt disease in

Chick pea) 32 ಕಡಲೆಯ ಲ್ ನೆಟೆರೋಗ/ ಡಿ ರೋಗ/ ಸೊರಗು ರೋಗ (Wilt disease in Chick pea) 33 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಲ್ ಕಾಂಡಕೊರೆಯುವ ಹುಳ ಮತುತ್ ನಿಯಂತರ್ಣ (Management of Stem borer in Chick

pea) 34 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಲ್ ಗೆದದ್ಲು ಹುಳು ನಿಯಂತರ್ಣ (Management of Termites in Chick pea)

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35 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಲ್ ಗೆದದ್ಲು ಹುಳು (Termites in Chick pea) 36 ಕಡಲೆ ಬೆಳೆಯ ಲ್ ಕಾಯಿಕೊರಕ