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

Informatics Network - AGRISNET: A NICNET based
Agricultural Informatics & Communication - during the Tenth
Plan. During the Ninth Plan, this proposal did not materialize
due to bureaucratic entangle. This ICT Network envisages to
facilitate an integrated approach of 'Internet Technology" and
"Sustainable Agricultural, Rural and Backward Area Development"
with its farm and non-farm linkages. During the Ninth Plan, the
AGRISNET was suggested to have nodes upto "block level", as
"block" is the planning unit for agricultural development.
However, in the Tenth Plan, the AGRISNET has been
envisaged to have Server Access nodes at 35 State
Agricultural and Cooperative Departments, and 600 District
Agricultural and Cooperative Offices. To usher in "agricultural
Governance" in the country, it is essential to make the
AGRISNET as the "rural infrastructure" reaching upto 6.5 lakhs
villages.
11.5 This Initiative is based on the recommendations of ISDA-
95 Conference (Informatics for Sustainable Agricultural
Development), which includes, among the others, the following
Informatics Networks: -
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