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High Speed<br />
Internet<br />
Small 60-120 cm.<br />
<strong>An</strong>tenna<br />
IP-based Terminal<br />
Video<br />
Conferencing<br />
Pay TV<br />
broadcast &<br />
Video on<br />
demand<br />
Radio<br />
Broadcast<br />
Telephone &<br />
video phone<br />
<strong>Agricultural</strong> Informatics Division - National Informatics Centre 9<br />
Figure-4: Stand-alone User Terminal linkages with various devices or appliances to facilitate<br />
agricultural extension/ advisory services<br />
11.7 National <strong>Information</strong> Centre (NIC) of the Ministry of<br />
Communications and <strong>Information</strong> Technology - through initiatives<br />
such as the DISNIC-AGRIS Project, and AGRISNET (a NIC-net<br />
based <strong>Agricultural</strong> Informatics and Communications Network) -<br />
seeks to reach all agricultural districts and blocks through its<br />
massive “Gateway Networks” (R.B.Singh, P.Kumar and<br />
T.Woodhead, 2002) 41 . Through these networks, farmers will have<br />
opportunity to learn of and benefit from new and improved<br />
agricultural practices, to have weather-forecast-based guidance<br />
for timely agricultural operations, to be alerted by satellite<br />
41 R.B.Singh, P.Kumar and T.Woodhead (2002): “Smallholder Farmers in India: Food Security and <strong>Agricultural</strong><br />
Policy”, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok, Thailand), March 2002, RAP publication:<br />
2002/03<br />
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