Agro-Informatics

Agro-informatics is the application in agriculture with innovative ideas, techniques and scientific knowledge to expand the horizons of the computer science. The book explores how ICT in Agriculture is gaining momentum throughout the World. There is a huge demand for Agricultural Graduates with ICTs skills and profound Informatics, Knowledge, to leverage a mix of emerging and existing technologies for effective and inexpensive ICT penetration in agricultural development, and to be the global leader enabler in innovating solutions for productivity increase and prosperity, through Informatics for agricultural development. It requires about 100000 'agricultural graduates-ready' through agricultural informatics, for undertaking S&T based agricultural development, and rejuvenating and ushering in agricultural dynamism in the country, by 2025. Precision farming is an integration of several technologies. India and foreign governments originally paid for the development and support of technologies such as GPS, Remote Sensing, and GIS, for military or other civilian purposes long before the emergence of precision farming. Agriculture Census forms part of a broader system of collection of Agricultural Statistics. It is a large-scale statistical operation for the collection and derivation of quantitative information about the structure of agriculture in the country. The book contains the details about the information technology applied to management and analysis of agricultural data.