Henry LigotUniversity of Asia and the PacificPhilippines
In the Philippines, one key segment of the value chain the e-strategy of the Department of Agriculture with the help of private ICT enterprises is targeting is what can be called the KM chain, the transfer of data, information and knowledge from buyers to producers, older to younger farmers, financing sources to farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs, and vice versa. One application that has been operational since 2007 is ePinoyFARMS, a resource management platform that helps farmers, producers and agriculture educators to monitor movements along the whole value chain. The system also allows farmers, young and old, to learn new or review tried and tested agricultural technologies and practices.
The growth is quite impressive, since this makes knowledge available to anyone with a telecom connection, which private sector telcos are deploying nationwide.
At this point in time, I would encourage everyone to move forward and address this week questions (# 4, 5 and 6). This is a limited-time exercise, in terms of addressing specifically the set of 6 questions put forward. I am sure the discussion will go on, notably with the upcoming Observatory and the WSIS process. However for the purposes of reporting on the discussion of those six questions, only the answers posted by Friday night, your time, are most likely to shape the report. Therefore I would appreciate you spend some time to reply to Questions 4, 5 and 6 by then.
Obviously, you may still post here even during the remainder of this last week of the current debate, but hopefully after you have given some thought and posted on the last three questions mentioned above.
e-agricultural policy should target:1 Networking of input providers (agrodealers) to farmers through mapping of agrodealers to farmers in their areas; 2.Networking of producers (farmers) to manufacturers and processors; and 3. networking of processors and retailers. This will require linking of databases of agro-dealers, farmers, processors and retailers and developling a platform for communicating especially through cellphones, village cafe or farmers e-kiosks. Because, the value chain concept is market driven, the tendency to have manufacturers support e-extension to drive productivity could be high.
Question 3: What are the key target areas and value chain segments for these e-agriculture strategies? And Why?
In the Philippines, one key segment of the value chain the e-strategy of the Department of Agriculture with the help of private ICT enterprises is targeting is what can be called the KM chain, the transfer of data, information and knowledge from buyers to producers, older to younger farmers, financing sources to farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs, and vice versa. One application that has been operational since 2007 is ePinoyFARMS, a resource management platform that helps farmers, producers and agriculture educators to monitor movements along the whole value chain. The system also allows farmers, young and old, to learn new or review tried and tested agricultural technologies and practices.
Henry
This is very interesting to learn important aspects of e-strategy of Philippines.
Here's the link for those who want some more information on the 5 years our Ministry of Agriculture has been on this project: http://ati.da.gov.ph/ati2/blog/joserey-alo/2012/e-learning-numbers
The growth is quite impressive, since this makes knowledge available to anyone with a telecom connection, which private sector telcos are deploying nationwide.
Hello,
At this point in time, I would encourage everyone to move forward and address this week questions (# 4, 5 and 6). This is a limited-time exercise, in terms of addressing specifically the set of 6 questions put forward. I am sure the discussion will go on, notably with the upcoming Observatory and the WSIS process. However for the purposes of reporting on the discussion of those six questions, only the answers posted by Friday night, your time, are most likely to shape the report. Therefore I would appreciate you spend some time to reply to Questions 4, 5 and 6 by then.
Obviously, you may still post here even during the remainder of this last week of the current debate, but hopefully after you have given some thought and posted on the last three questions mentioned above.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Mawaki
e-agricultural policy should target:1 Networking of input providers (agrodealers) to farmers through mapping of agrodealers to farmers in their areas; 2.Networking of producers (farmers) to manufacturers and processors; and 3. networking of processors and retailers. This will require linking of databases of agro-dealers, farmers, processors and retailers and developling a platform for communicating especially through cellphones, village cafe or farmers e-kiosks. Because, the value chain concept is market driven, the tendency to have manufacturers support e-extension to drive productivity could be high.