NADP - E-AGRICULTURE SERVICE FOR ACCELERATING AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LIVING STANDARDS OF FARMERS THROUGH TNAUAGRITECH PORTAL
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is proved to be powerful tool to reach the downtrodden, neglected farming communities. The ICT tools could be used for dissemination of the agricultural technologies and allied technologies in time with minimum budget. The Government of Tamil Nadu is equipping the State Agricultural Department with the State-of-the-art ICT infrastructures under TNAUAGRITECH, which will facilitate agricultural related information access and advisory services to the farmers and all stakeholders of the supply-chain of the Agricultural system. The program is proposed to be implemented with objectives of
- To set up e-connectivity in all the 60 centers of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (14 KVKs + ATIC-2, 34 ResearchCentres and 10 Colleges ) with all the 385 blocks and 30 districts of Tamil Nadu.
- To provide need based information to the farming community through TNAU Agritech portal with various ICT modes.
- To create interface mechanism between Agriculture Department, KVKs, Research Stations, NGOs and Farmers Association.
- To provide need based and timely farm advisory service through various ICT Tools and Techniques.
e-Connectivity which includes computer with hi-power internet, multimedia facility, video conferencing facilities will be established in the all the block level agriculture department offices (385), KVKs (14), TNAU Research Stations (34) and colleges (10). The Separate TNAU AGRITECH Portal to act as Hub center will be developed with well-structured facilities which will be loaded with all the necessary and needed agriculture and allied contents. The deliverables issue of the projects are Development of e-Governance services of the Department, deployment of services like Online Expert Advise, Online chat, discussion & messaging, podcasting, Schemes and subsidies info and Deployments of services like weather based crop advisories, Market information, e-commerce services, e-governance services, document management services. The expected outcome of the projects will be Transfer of technology to the last milestone of the farming community and timely, On the spot farm advisory service through ICT, Timely delivering of need based information to the farming community (anywhere, anytime service), Field problem diagnosis through Video Conferencing mode and giving farm advisory services, Providing information on Government Schemes, Programmes, and Announcements for the benefit of the target farmers. The budget has been calculated for developing TNAU AGRI TECH portal and TNAU executable issue. The remaining connectivity to Blocks and Agriculture Department will be executed separately by the Agriculture Department.
Project Financing
A.TNAUAGRITECH Portal (TNAU Part)
SlNo |
Particulars |
Rs. lakhs |
| 1 |
Media streaming, Web casting, product / blogging, Conference gateway / control, forecasting clusters, information portal facility including power backup with UPS/Generators |
120.00 |
| 2 |
Workstations –25, Mobile workstations-5, PCs with Printers / Imaging systems |
35.00 |
| 3 |
Software tools / tape/CD/DVD media per year |
30.00 |
| 4 |
Domain Experts consultancy charges for transforming knowledge to information |
20.00 |
| 5 |
Content programming consultancy services outsourced– technical scholars with domain expertise / software programming – @Rs.1.8 lakhs /man year for 20 man yrs |
36.00 |
| 6 |
20 MBPS server bandwidth charges per year |
60.00 |
| 7 |
Videoconferencing MCU for connecting 60 centers |
50.00 |
| B. Connectivity to 60 TNAU locations |
| 8 |
Workstations with PC, scanner, printer, webcam , UPS-60 @ 1.00 |
60.00 |
| 9 |
512 KBPS broadband with fixed IP per year* |
60.00 |
| |
Total |
496.00 |
Total Budget for TNAU Portal and Connectivity to TNAU centers: Rs 4.96 Crores
B. A.TNAUAGRITECH Portal (Department of Agricultural Part)
SlNo |
Particulars |
Rs. lakhs |
| 1 |
Computer and accessories for blocks and offices of the Department of Agriculture and Seed Certification (252 computers and accessories at one per block and 40 computers and accessories for 20 district offices and 8 computers and accessories for Seed Certification Department. |
135.20 |
Total Budget (Rs. 631.20 Lakhs)
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