Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2016 Winner

Harmonized Information of Agriculture, Revenue and Irrigation for a Transformation Agenda- Precision Technology for Agriculture


Description

HARITA-PRIYA is a pilot project assigned to C-DAC, Hyderabad by Andhra Pradesh State Government, India to acquire micro-climate information from farmer fields using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), thereby enabling the dissemination of location specific advisories to farmers. ‘Decision Support Models’ are executed based on the data received from the field and alerts are generated for pest/disease forewarning and irrigation scheduling. Based on the alerts generated by the system, Agricultural Officers of the state government send personalized crop advisories to the farmers in the regional language, Telugu, via SMS.

Project website

http://haritapriya.ap.gov.in/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-agriculture 2016
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 2: Zero hunger

Coverage
  • Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh State, India

Status

Completed

Start date

29 November 2014

End date

29 February 2016


Entity name

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

Entity country—type

India Government

Entity website

http://cdac.in/

Partners

Government of Andhra Pradesh Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), ICAR Agricultural Research Station, Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Anantapur