Agricultural Strategy for Eleventh Plan, Planning Commission, Government of India, has pointed out that with the availability of land and water fixed, the goal of 4% growth in agriculture can be achieved only by increasing productivity per unit of scarce natural resources through effective use of improved technology. It is planned that alternate delivery channels spanning Rural Knowledge Centres (RKCs), ICT-based extension, farmer-to-farmer extension, NGOs and the private sector should also be promoted simultaneously. The scheme--'Mass Media Support to Extension' aims to utilise the impressive infrastructure of Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) for producing and broadcasting agricultural programmes for supporting other extension efforts. The National Agriculture Policy emphasizes upon the use of Information Technology (IT) for achieving a more rapid development of agriculture in India. The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, therefore, is in the process of preparing a National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGP-A) for a more focused implementation of e-governance activities in the agriculture sector. In order to promote e-governance in agriculture at the centre and provide support to states/UTs for the same, the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation is implementing a central sector scheme, "Strengthening/Promoting Agricultural Information Systems' during the Tenth Plan with a budgetary provision of INR 100 crore. The scheme has the following components: (i) Development of agricultural informatics and communication; (ii) Strengthening of IT apparatus in agriculture and cooperation in states and UTs (AGRISNET); (iii) IT apparatus at Department headquarters and its field offices; (iv) Agricultural Resources Information Systems (AgRIS); and (v) Kisan Call Centres. The Department has developed four portals and 40 websites covering both headquarters and its sub-formations under the component "Development of Agricultural Informatics and Communications". Some important portals which has till now been developed are: (a) AGMARKNET Portal (http://agmarknet.nic.in); (b) DACNET Portal (http://dacnet.nic.in); (c) DAC Portal (http://agricoop.nic.in); (d) INTRADAC Portal (http://intradac.nic.in); (e) SEEDNET Portal (http://seednet.gov.in); (f) Agricultural Census Portal (http://agcensus.nic.in). The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation is supporting e-governance activities at the state agriculture and allied departments through AGRISNET, a state sector mission mode project, which aims at providing improved services to the farming community using Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Agricultural Resources Information System (AgRIS) project has been launched for implementation in two pilot districts of Rohtak (Dairy Typology) in Haryana and Banaskantha (Arid Typology) in Gujarat. Kisan Call Centres initiative aims to provide information to the farming community through toll-free telephone lines. Usage of GIS satellite imaging in India had been happening since a long time in India