E Agriculture is a new area of knowledge emerging out of convergence of IT and farming techniques Co...........

World Geography (Easy) Agriculture

E-Agriculture is a new area of knowledge emerging out of convergence of IT and farming techniques. Consider the following sentences in context of E-Agriculture.

1. It uses a host of technologies like Remote Sensing, Computer Simulation, Assessment of speed and direction of Wind, Soil quality s says, Crop Yield predictions and Marketing using IT.

2. The E-Agriculture is part of Mission Mode Project which has been included in NeGP (under National E-governance Plan).

Which of the above sentence(s) is/are true?

Only 2

Only 1

1 and 2

None of the above

छोटे Courses बड़े Results

Master Agriculture

Prepare through Micro-courses

Try Now

Explanation:

e-Agriculture is a global community of practice that facilitates dialogue, information exchange and sharing of ideas related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for sustainable agriculture and rural development.

The mission of e-Agriculture is to facilitate the discussion on the adoption and use of ICTs and digital innovations in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, natural resource management and rural development.

e-Agriculture was born out of Action Line C7 ICT Applications: e-agriculture from the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO of the UN) was assigned as facilitator of this action line and also took up the role of the facilitation of the e-Agriculture Community of Practice