Agricultural Resources Information System (AgRIS): An e ...

agriculture extension services are crucial and can also play an
important role in delivering information on rural development,
business development, and marketing. Markets are now the
driver for agricultural growth. Marketing today depends on
information system, i.e. on adequate information about what
people want, at what price, and who can supply it (http://www.
Agmarknet.nic.in). Farms, households, and other components of
rural systems need a minimum bundle of rural infrastructure
services to function efficiently, which include:
• An adequate supply of safe drinking water;
• Health and education infrastructure;
• Transportation infrastructure and services;
• Information systems; and
• Adequate and dependable energy supplies
2.9 Adequate infrastructure of every type is imperative for
agricultural and rural development. Agricultural Development
induces economic growth in other rural sectors by generating
demand for inputs and providing materials for processing and
marketing industries. The renewed strategy of the World Bank
(2002) is as follows: -
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