• E-technology stands for Electronic Technology: This includes the
internet and related information technologies, and digital technologies,
used of which have grown rapidly in recent years in all elds.
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Bene ts of use of ICT in aid of farmers
• decision-making process: informed decision-> improves the quality of
the decision-making process.
• Farmers participation: When a community adopts modern agriculture
methods, productivity can be increased.
• innovations: development of new and improved techniques that help
grow crops in adversities
• Better outreach to all farmers i.e. small and marginal farmers
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• Crop Analy cs:
• to empower farmers and strengthen agri reforms in the state.
• con uence of technologies like GIS and satellite imagery & processing to iden fy
genuine farmers, exclude bogus bene ciaries, for providing government bene ts to
the real farmers, analyzing the yield pa erns, registra on anomalies, crop pa erns
and procurement predic ons, etc .
• The objec ves of the Crop Analy cs solu on are to track down the bogus farmers
and plots and ensure that only genuine farmers avail of MSP bene ts
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Geographic informa on systems, or GIS, are extensively used in agriculture,
especially in precision farming.
• Precision agriculture uses informa on technology (IT) to ensure that crops
and soil receive exactly what they need for op mum health and
produc vity.
• Land is mapped digitally, and per nent geode c data such as topography
and contours are combined with other sta s cal data for easier analysis of
the soil.
• GIS is used in decision making such as what to plant and where to plant
using historical data and sampling.
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• Sugam portal:
• Farmer-facing web portal and mobile app for applica on of all schemes and
services in the agriculture and allied sector.
• Applicants can track the real- me status of their applica ons on the portal
• Applicants also get no ca ons on SMS or E-mail as their applica on is
approved or rejected at each stage
• End-to-end processing of applica ons including uploading of veri ca on
reports and geo-tagged photographs is enabled online on the web portal and
mobile app for block, district, and state-level o cers.
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• Sugam is India’s 1st of its kind single window pla orm for farmers and agri-
preneurs.
• Aligning with the Government of Odisha’s 5T vision of governance, Sugam
portal aims to transform the lives of farmers by leveraging technology and
fostering teamwork among government o cials to enable mely and
transparent delivery of bene ts to farmers.
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• Ama Krushi: Ama Krushi is a free agricultural service provided by
Odisha's Department for Agriculture and Farmer's Empowerment.
There are currently 6,703,554 enrolled farmers who receive weekly
calls on their mobile phones with customized agricultural advice
throughout the season.
• SAFAL (Simpli ed Applica on for Agricultural Loans) is India's rst
online agricultural credit facilita on portal. This common credit portal
eases access to over 300 term loan products provided for farmers and
agri-entrepreneurs.
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• e-License for Agri-inputs is an integrated system which deals in
apply,inspect,verify and apporoval of sale/store license for
Seeds,Fer lisers and Insec cides under a single window pla orm.
• The state government used technology to iden fy the farmer from the
land he lls and capture the demographics. The robust tech-led system
has ensured that MSP payments are credited to the farmer’s account
within 24-72 hours.
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• Agricultural Policy of Odisha 2019
• the state government aims to promote the use of IoT (internet of things) sensors
to keep the real- me check on the supply and consump on of inputs like seeds,
fer lizers and pes cides etc.
• Similarly, it will ini
ate measures for se ng up technology system for automated
grading and sor ng of crops using robo cs and machine vision.
• It will reduce e orts and wastage in the supply chain.
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• The state government will also strengthen the use of drones for remote
monitoring, procurement of high-resolu on satellite imagery, weather analysis
from IMD ( Indian Meteorological Department) as well through private
partnerships.
• “The analysis of the data from various sources will be used in ac vi es like
crea ng agro-advisory, monitoring the situa on in the remote areas, crop
cu ng experiment etc.
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• Among others, a decision support system would be developed under the
ADAPT (Analy cs for Decision-making and Agricultural Policy Transforma on)
program which will be an integrated pla orm for all the relevant datasets in
the agriculture department for the purpose of e ec ve management of the
ac vi es carried out by the department.
• “The pla orm will also enable the usage of the data by the o cials of the
government at the state, district, block, gram panchayat (GP) and village
level.
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