:idea: Good morning to all of my fellow participants. Consequent upon Charlotte 's and Riggs observation: i enclose the role and stress laid by the experts of the SAARC conference recently held in New Delhi India: e-agriculture is highly needed in agriculture extension services with private public partnership mechanism in order to overcome lack of feedback follow-up in research extension linkages identified as weaknesses in the existing extension systems. Here e-agriculture is the most critical element in research-extension-farmer-marketing loop. Therefore, various ICT, media and above all manipulations of e-agriculture offers strong potential to improve this mechanism. With latest applications of ICT, the whole world shrinks to what is known as "Global Village." In e-agriculture private and public partnership can be built by developing simulation models in various components of agricultural sciences by developing decision support systems (DSS) for understanding a process/phenomenon in agriculral sciences under varying scenarios and to convey results /findings through text,figs,charts, easy to understand publications and software applications of course. SHAH Masood India
Submitted by Aminur R Khan on Mon, 03/10/2008 - 16:28
Working with ICICI Securities for the last couple of years....basically looking after commodity markets, implications on agriculture and rural livelihoods. The forum is quite an interesting one, like to empower and enlight myself from people having loaths of rural experience.