IT Enabled Services in Rural Agricultural Sector Ramanathan, S.
By: Ramanathan, S
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ArticlePublisher: 2007Subject(s): Ites | Information Technology Enabled Services | Rural Agricultural Sector | Rural Area | Agricultural Sector | Ecopreneurship | Agripreneurship | Agripreneurship And Ecopreneurship | Entrepreneurshipip | Seventh Biennial Conference On The New F | Biennial Conference Papers
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Seventh Biennial Conference on the New Frontiers of EntrepreSummary: Agriculture is a very significant sector for the continued growth of the Indian economy. About 70 per cent of the rural households and 8 per cent of urban households are still principally dependent on agriculture for employment. Since some three-quarters of the population live in rural areas, a majority of households thus depend principally on this sector. Though, industrialization of the Indian economy has adversely affected the share of agriculture in the GDP, the fact cannot be ignored that India has undergone a series of successful agricultural revolutions-starting with the 'green' revolution in wheat and rice in the 1960's and 1970's, the 'white' revolution in milk to the 'yellow' revolution in oilseeds in 1980's. As a result, India has achieved self-sufficiency in agriculture. New Internet-based information communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to open new information channels to the information-poor rural areas of developing countries. The role of telecentres for making such ICTs available to rural population is considered with reference to traditional agricultural information system The aim of this paper is to discuss about the role of Information...
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Agriculture is a very significant sector for the continued growth of the Indian economy. About 70 per cent of the rural households and 8 per cent of urban households are still principally dependent on agriculture for employment. Since some three-quarters of the population live in rural areas, a majority of households thus depend principally on this sector. Though, industrialization of the Indian economy has adversely affected the share of agriculture in the GDP, the fact cannot be ignored that India has undergone a series of successful agricultural revolutions-starting with the 'green' revolution in wheat and rice in the 1960's and 1970's, the 'white' revolution in milk to the 'yellow' revolution in oilseeds in 1980's. As a result, India has achieved self-sufficiency in agriculture. New Internet-based information communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to open new information channels to the information-poor rural areas of developing countries. The role of telecentres for making such ICTs available to rural population is considered with reference to traditional agricultural information system The aim of this paper is to discuss about the role of Information...
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