Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Project has won the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2016 prize in the e-Agriculture category.
Harita-Priya (Harmonized Information of Agriculture, Revenue and Irrigation for a Transformation Agenda &ndash Precision Technology for Agriculture) Project is meant to collect very specific climate data from farms and give farmers personalised information through SMS.
Key facts
The Harita-Priya Project uses wireless sensor networks to collect micro-climatic information from farms.
The data is used to create advisories and alerts on irrigation schedules and pests and plant diseases.
Based on this state agriculture officers disseminate personalised crop advisories in Telugu language to farmers by way of SMS.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) in Hyderabad has developed the project and is having a pilot run in Anantpur district.
Andhra Pradesh government, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) station and Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University also have partnered for the project.
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