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A farmer now can get advise regarding crop cultivation from an expert within a few hours in Andhra Pradesh.
Making this possible is eSagu, an agro-advisory system, developed by IIIT in collaboration with the Media Lab Asia. Its an ICT based, personalised agri-advisory tool.
The Social Empowerment of Youth Women and Children (SEYWAC), has extended this facility to five villages in the district of Nizamabad.
The villages near Kamareddy --Adloor, Rangampet, Posanipet, Gargul and Israjuwadi were selected to carry out the second phase of eSagu, with this new feature. Accordingly, any farmer, who has a doubt or query regarding the crops he is cultivating, can get access to the agriculture expert and clarify them in a couple of hours.
Farmers of all these five villages will have access to agricultural scientists based in the campus of the IIIT Hyderabad. Using internet, mobile phones and, web based technologies farmers will be able to reach scientists through a coordinator, who is trained in using computer and internet technologies.
eSagu is scalable and is intended to improve farm productivity, profitability and sustainability. It delivers, farm-specific, agro-expert advice in a timely manner to each farm at the farmer’s door-step.
In the pilot project for village level implementation of eSagu, SEYWAC is determined to bridge the digital divide in the rural India and improve farm productivity and farmers' profitability by educating scientific farming practices and providing risk-management education.
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