Farmers And Technology............ By Parina Einjen

Progressively technology increases the impact on agriculture in terms of extension education, marketing, linkages etc. Farmers want to link with technology for better farming practices. He wants to know different schemes for agriculture and para-agriculture activities, market rate of commodities, new farming machineries…

Technologies like TCS Mobile Agro Advisory System and Spoken web by Sajjata sangh have gone beyond customer care services on phone. Through these services farmers can get answers in whatever means they want like in writing, by listening, by hearing. Even they can receive the advice and information as ‘voice SMS’ in their local languages. Now in big surprise, the technology is invented to know the water requirement of plant is ‘crops can tell farmers they need water’ which is developed for NASA. The farmers just need to clip a tiny sensor to their potato or corn leaves. When the plant feels it needs some moisture, data from the leaves will be sent wirelessly over the Internet to computers linked to irrigation equipment.

But the questions remain same that at what level the technology will improves the crop production or increase the income of small and marginal farmers or increase the standard of living or reduce the problem of food security…

Why this blog

Friends, comrades and all,
Our purpose in life will not be fulfilled if we can not contribute our bits to the present and future generations. We can do this by many ways. Blogging is just another way, and a strong one at that.
'We and Environment' is a group of people concerned about our society, our planet and its future. The group strives to join hands with people to make our planet a better place to live in and make it even better for the future generation. Spreading awareness regarding environment is a major activity of the group; blogging is part of it.

And that's it how we wish to proceed.