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K. Nagasree, B. Venkateswarlu, Dixit. S., and K. Ravishankar, 2010. Rural Knowledge Share Centres, Handbook (Bulletin 5/2010), National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad. pp.24
November, 2010
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Published by: Dr. B. Venkateswarlu CL, NAIP and Director Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture Santoshnagar, Saidabad PO, Hyderabad - 500 059 Phone : 040-2453 0177 (Off.), 2453 2262 (Res.) Fax : 040-2453 1802 / 2453 5336 Email : root@crida.ernet.in Web : http://crida.ernet.in
Contents
District
Mandal
Adilabad
Gudihathnoor
Seethagondi
Anantapur
Aatmakur
Pampanur
Kadapa Tummala cheruvu, Bandla Pullaiah Gumpu, Kurvapalli Kotturu, Koremvari Gumpu, Ramavaram, Mamillavai, Venkatapuram, Bheemavaram Jamisthapur, Telugu gudem, Kodur Thanda
Lakkireddipally
B. Yerragudi
Brahmana Yerragudi Kaspa, V.N.Palli, Mudindla Palli, Kapu Palli, Konampeta, P .V. Palli, Puttakarla vary colony, Madhigapalli
Khammam
Ashwapuram
Tummalacheruvu
Mahabubnagar Mahabubnagar
Jamisthapur
Nalgonda
Penpahad
New Banjara Hills, Jalmal Kunta, Seetamma Thanda, Yellappa Kunta Thanda, Dupahad Chinna garekunta, Peda Garekunta, China Seetaram Thanda, Peda Seetaram Thanda, Lalsing Thanda Ibrahimpur village, Ibrahimpur Thanda/Roopsing Thanda, Dhadi Thanda, Malkaipet Thanda Jaffergudem, satyanarayanapur, Ramannagudem, Kusumbai Thanda, Chakal Zal Thanda, Lokiya Thanda, Vapul Gadda Thanda, Cherla Thanda
Ranga Reddy
Parigi
Ibrahimpur
Warangal
Raghunathapally
Jaffergudem
Realizing the importance of ICT's one of the specific objectives of the project is Capacity building and skill development of primary and secondary stakeholders through knowledge sharing, collective action and use of modern ICTs. Hence efforts are made in the project to open the avenues for technology access and utilization in the rural areas to the clientele through establishment of Knowledge Share Centres on pilot mode in 2008 .
The broad objectives in establishing KSC are To enhance access& sharing the useful knowledge resources in agriculture & allied sectors To supplement experts advisory services
To strengthen the capacity of farmers, local institutions and CBOs etc. in terms of knowledge resources utilisation,.
CRIDA
KSC Anantapur
KSC Adilabad
KSC Kadapa
IKU Anantapur
IKU Adilabad
IKU Kadapa
IKU Khammam
IKU Rangareddy
IKU Mahabubnagar
IKU Warangal
IKU Nalgonda
Sl. Place of KSC No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ibrahimpur Dupahad Jamisthanpur Pampanur Seethagondi B.Yerragudi Thummalachruvu Jaffergudem
Operators, selected from the trained rural youth are appointed at Knowledge share centers to coordinate the activities at KSC, to assist and support clientele in availing the ICT services at the cluster. The cluster wise operators details are provided the table Knowledge Share Centres, Kadapa
In order to enhance the productivity and monitor the work of KSC operators, monthly review meetings are conducted in the 1st week of every month and organized in such a way that practical and theoretical sessions on all components of KSC like touch screen kiosk, IVRS and DAP along with other topics like Market linkages and Agri risk management are covered to build up the skills of the Operators. Operators performance is monitored and information on updates of the services is provided For smooth running of KSC operations in various sites located the attendance is being captured through Ikisan's web portal. False punching is strictly prohibited by tracking the IP addresses where the punching has been done. The passwords and user ids have been Online attendance in the portal provided to the Operators. They entry time and quitting time would be recorded on punching. Attendan ce will be punched twice a day while coming to work and while going out from work .Bicycles were arranged to the KSC operators for easy access to the cluster villages which has proved to enhance the quality of work and better productivity. The KSCs are also provided with other facilities like water purifiers for drinking germ-free water, dhuries for making farmer meetings, scanners for copying ration cards, voter identity cards, land passbooks etc.
IVRS
Experts clarifying the doubts of users in accessing information from Touch screen kiosk Touch screen kiosk allows users to navigate for information on crop cultivation practices, plant protection measures and market information etc, with a finger touch facilitating user-friendly interaction like ATMs.
Screen shots of the content ( in local language) placed in kiosk
At present the location specific information on ten crops Groundnut, Cotton, C a s t o r, R e d g r a m , Blackgram, Paddy, Chillies, Maize, Greengram & Bengal gram is available in the kiosk. The content for livestock, horticultural crops is under preparation which would be available to clientele in the couple of the months.
So far the content of cotton crop is accessed more ( 15.05%of clientele) followed by the paddy(10.88%) and redgram (10.84%) crops during the current year (2009-2010) among the content of ten crops Paddy, cotton, chillies, redgram , blackgram, bengalgram, greengram, Maize, Castor & groundnut placed in kiosk for accessing information. During the year 200910 the details of the clientele of who accessed the content for different crops from touch screen kiosk are as follows.
Crop wise usage of (TSK) 2009 April March 2010
S.No Crop 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 COTTON MAIZE PADDY GROUNDNUT CHILLIES CASTOR RED GRAM GREEN GRAM BLACK GRAM BENGAL GRAM Percentage of Users from all Clusters 15.05 10.45 10.88 9.16 9.16 7.96 10.84 10.24 9.33 6.92
with timings is displayed at KSC as well as important public places of the cluster villages. The villagers priorities will also be considered and two days per week are allotted for screening the movies of farmers preferences. Table-4. Cluster wise Details of CDS/DVDs screened on latest technologies Cluster wise usage of (DAP) for screening CDs/DVDs S.No Cluster No. of Cds' screened 1 Ibrahimpur 83 2 Dupahad 172 3 Jamisthanpur 157 4 Pampanur 412 5 Seethagondi 128 6 B.Yerragudi 538 7 Thummalachruvu 523 8 Jaffergudem 443 So far Kadapa cluster B.yerragudi Knowledge share centre screened more number of CDs/DVDs (538) for villagers followed by Khammam tummalacheruvu cluster (523)
IVRS
One of the important facilities of the KSC is Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS). This particular application was developed in order to provide content and current market information in voice format to farmers who are far away from the KSC and those who are not able to come to KSC.
With regard to IVRS application where telephone connection is mandatory which again depends on the phone line availability, the advanced technology of Fixed cellular Terminal (FCT) was used innovatively in which a Mobile SIM card is inserted which could be used as a phone connection for running of IVRS application . The voice information is provided in local language (Telugu) and as well as in English. By using this service farmer can directly get the current price information, weather information, best management practices for agriculture and allied information by a call from his mobile or from any pay phone. The total crops covered under IVRS service are thirteen. To serve needy farmers only presently the service is a paid service and a charge will be added to a call .
Internet
Internet facility was provided for emails, job search and examination results for rural youth and farmers as well. Train and bus ticket reservations can also be done which can be printed out without wasting time and money Internet is one of the most important components in Information and Communication Technology that forms the major part of the NAIP . At the same Net Setters for Internet facility time it is also a challenging task to penetrate such technology where there are no fixed phone lines as the places are very remote. As a prerequisite to tackle this issue a detailed survey of Internet facilities of these areas based on the availability of mobile signal in each cluster village was done. Based on the observations it was decided to go for
Idea USB Internet connection in 5 places, Airtel USB Internet connection in 2 places and BSNL will-net in one place. Internet is one of the most important components in Information and Communication Technology that forms the major part of the NAIP . Internet facility was provided for emails, job search and examination results for rural youth and farmers as well. Train and bus ticket reservations can also be done which can be printed out without wasting time and money. The average usage of Internet in all the clusters is around 618 mb / month. Where as in some clusters like Ibrahimpur of Rangareddy district it is exceeding beyond I GB / month
SASYAVANI
The other prominent ICT application planned using IT tool mobile phone to reach farmers is Sasyavani short message services. Timely delivery of accurate advice/message/ diagnostic & solution services is an essential feature of the Sasyavani ICT service. As the alerts about information of weather information, market prices, crop management alerts etc,. Exploitation of the mobile phone as a communication device ensures fast
precise accurate needy location specific information dissemination to the end users. The service would enable clientele to access weather information, market price alerts in both audio and message forms with easy to understand interface. The users from Information and Knowledge utilization IKU groups and the villagers who register their particulars with mobile phone number at Knowledge share centers can learn the status of alerts in a matter of minutes through sasyavani service.
eFarmer mandi
To improve the bargaining power of marginal, small, and medium farmers who are empowered with information on market prices from various markets the innovative business platform development is being planned commercially successful which paves an easy way to get connected to dealers/ middlemen/ business sources. The strategy reduces the gap between different stakeholders involved in agribusiness realizing the better price to producer and genuine price to consumer. This initiative would start a strong service web enabled platform connecting various players in rural economy sector .
Sustainability
To support sustainability coin box phones were introduced in KSC for revenue generation
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Dr. K. Nagasree
TSG (ICT) Member, NAIP , CRIDA TSG (ICT) Member, NAIP , CRIDA
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Dr. K. Ravishankar
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Syed Dastagiri
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L. Uday Kiran
Sr. Research Fellow (ML/ARM) Sr. Research Fellow (Content) Network Administrator
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D. Nagaiah
Dupahad
Nalgonda
9948188272 dupahad@gmail.com
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P . Ramprasad
Zamistapur
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B. Virupakshi
Pampanur
Anantapur
9908829205 pampanur@gmail.com
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S. Raju
Seetagondi
Adilabad
9177683332 seethagondi@gmail.com
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V. Himabindu
B.Erragudi
Kadapa
9701931346 b.yerragudi@gmail.com
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B. Ramesh
Thummalacheruvu
Khammam
7702390320
tummalacheruvu@gmail.com
R. Kishore P . Sekhar, RA S. Ravidragoud Narasimha Reddy BIRD-AP B. Sivarudrappa Chief Programme Coordinator
Programme Coordinator (Kadapa) Technical Support CCPI Social Mobiliser Village Organiser Programme Coordinator Mahabubnagar & Anantapur Clusters
Priya, C.K. P . Dasarath Mojid Ali T. Narasimha Murthy CWS R.V. Ramamohan Joint Director
Programme Coordinator RA
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