Thursday, December 23, 2010

Politics of bees and honey

Bees will bargain for better price of honey!

Indian agriculturist will get the benefits of their innovations in soil in accordance with their counterparts in IT irrespective of brokers and middlemen. ICT and Mobile applications will play a role to energize agricultural sector.
Innumerable individual innovations that are practiced from time immemorial  in different geographical and crop cultivation areas are either not aware to public or diseased with their owners. The good agricultural practices are going to share with mobile applications and along with newly opened up markets and with mobile phone as a tool to communicate and interact. Agriculture sector and small farmers are going to free from middle men. This will generate a new economical and political arena where farmers and rural economy will dominate over their city counterparts. They will demand more from politicians to create law and policies in favor to them as against global industrial lobbyists.

Friday, December 10, 2010

ICT for Agriculture


Even with increased internet and mobile service reach, computer penetration remains extremely low in rural areas. Mobile phone has to take over e-literacy in farming and agricultural operations as an ICT tool for productivity enhancement.
Applications to address this segment like price forecast, product trading, crop and harvest planning, inventory forecasting, government information, availing credit facility, linking different agencies, etc will drastically change the productivity of Indian agricultural sector. They are more willing to pay for utility services for their better earnings than mere calls or games.
With regional language interface and multimedia content delivery in field operations, we can cater to large number of rural customers. Location Based services are also play a vital role in rural economic development.
Private enterprises and social agencies are required field data synchronized with their central database for a wider reach into a large underserved rural economy. It will reduce their operational cost in micro filed data collection and data dissemination.
Governments, insurance companies, banks and other service sector organizations has to have mobile applications in regional languages to address and serve masses with less cost. Mobile phone with its interactive property, convenience, multimedia content delivery and integrated data communication will give result to more reach. Altersoft mobile apps will become a trendsetter in rural mobile computing.