A knowledge based Indian agriculture: With cloud ERP arrangement

Abstract

The knowledge and experiments' sharing can inculcate a healthy competitive environment in agriculture sector across the country. In this age of high usage of mobile devices by rural India the problem of absence of requisite extension services to farming community can easily be dealt by launching a two-way interactive value creating service through mobile devices. Agriculturists is India, by and large, are dispersed, unorganized, illiterate, deficient in resources and run a high risk of natural calamities, market uncertainties and price crashes. Pooling the traditional and scientific wealth of knowledge from across agricultural domains into a cloud based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) will develope an e-agriculture Resource Planning platform for the empowerment of agricultural fraternity. The paper emphasizes the need of an externally hosted cloud computing platform to manage full utilization and application of appropriate knowledge and technology by the users across the country. The availability of ERP-cloud based integrated e-agricultural setup for accessing all types of desired information will benefit them with customised solutions across geographical locations. The study proposes an application for Usage and Execution Behaviour `UnEB' to facilitate the end users taking suitable steps timely to maximize their returns from agricultural and allied activities. The proposed application may be integrated with ERP-cloud to recommend quality decisions based on GIS (geographic information system), remote sensing using smartphones and feedback mechanism. The intended system may lead to improving the farming practices, overcoming the crises and developing an upgraded agricultural system for the country.