Role and Potential of Information Technology in Sector of Agriculture

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  • N. N. Saxena

Abstract

For developed countries, agriculture and industrial sector continues face such problem as requirement for increasing the food productivity as well as output, and development for job opportunities of poor and rural people. The agriculture sector is having affects by economic trends as well as rapid shifts. The findings showed there is a strong requirement of IT that be used for dealing with problems as well as improvements and increased productivity and advertising of agriculture. But, IT's interest in agriculture was not exploited completely. Introduction of Information technology in rural and agricultural sector is fairly slower compared other economic sector in which the contemporary information technology was incorporated at higher speed. The aim of the paper is examining function, capacity, participation of information technology in this business and demonstrate the opportunity for information technology usage in several agriculture sector areas. Their results are on literature available and economic theory, which indicated that information technology had tremendous potential in helping producers and stakeholder in increasing performance of the agriculture, effective and profitability. Players, though, have other drawback and challenge in dealing with in application and usage of information technology. There are several way where information technology could be made in use to share data, such as digital kiosks that not only offer essential resources, such as telephone, schooling, health care, agriculture and irrigation, electronic banking, municipal services, etc., specialist networks that help to define marketing options and optimum approaches. Information technology enables to forecast the outcome precisely crop physiology relevant to the agriculture. The study of leaf protein is an interesting research that helps in addressing deficiency of protein as well as malnutrition. The current study dealt with IT's role for Agricultural production.

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2021-03-01

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N. N. Saxena. (2021). Role and Potential of Information Technology in Sector of Agriculture. International Journal of Modern Agriculture, 10(1), 752 - 757. Retrieved from http://www.modern-journals.com/index.php/ijma/article/view/665

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