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IFPRI, TNAU collaborate to launch advancing agricultural practice portal
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Tuesday, 12 June, 2012, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
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fiogf49gjkf0d The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in partnership with the e-Extension Centre of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), has launched an advancing agricultural practice portal www.advanceagripractice.in for the ICICI Knowledge Park (IKP) Centre for Advancement in Agricultural Practice (ICAAP), a subsidiary of IKP Trust, Chennai, recently.
According to a press release, the portal aims at improving agricultural productivity and farm income for smallholder farmers across India through improvements in agricultural practice. The agricultural knowledge management portal serves as a gateway for knowledge and best practices from the CGIAR (a global research partnership for a food secure future), other international agricultural research centres, and national agricultural research institutes.
Designed to respond to the information needs of local knowledge intermediaries such as research scientists, extension professionals, farmers associations, NGO staff, and agricultural entrepreneurs, the portal provides information that will benefit both small and marginal farmers directly through improved extension services, and indirectly through the improved use of information by intermediary organisations.
The portal currently provides data on rice, pulses (black gram and green gram), sugarcane, banana, and coconut in the delta region of Tamil Nadu (Thanjavur and Tiruvarur districts). It will be scaled up in the coming year to include data on major commodities such as wheat, cotton, groundnut, tapioca, turmeric, mango, and maize; on fodder crops; and on animal husbandry topics such as cattle, buffalo, goat, sheep, and poultry farming; as well as tribal agriculture.
The data available on the portal includes:
Region-specific information such as soil fertility status, potential hydrogen (PH), land use patterns and cropping patterns;
availability of high quality agricultural inputs such as certified seeds and fertilisers;
news regarding agriculture-related government schemes and agri-credit institutions; and
information on procurement centres, traders and markets.
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