ICT as a tool to convert farmer to Agri-preneur

Agriculture has been the backbone of Indian farmers’ economic status from time immemorial. Agriculture being highly skill oriented and technical intensive needed to be given high priority. Farmers in India have always been keen in increasing production. This perception of just being producer has negatively affected by degrading the environment. Soil salination, residual effect of pesticides, degradation of land and ultimately resulting in saturation of production which are aftereffects of this malady.

Now the concept of sustainability and ecological farming is getting importance. This forward moment hast to get a backhand support such as capacity building of farmers. Thousands of crores of rupees have been put into various research just to increase the production of crop. The major key to stop this pathetic codition of farmer is to incorporate entrepreneurship qualities in him.

A farmer should be empowered with the knowledge of crop with respect to production, marketing, quality parameter .the present globalization has also handicapped Indian farmers they have been thrown to global competition where in one end there are heavily subsidized farming and on the other end our poor farmers.

These thus require these farmers to be empowered to this global competition. There is need to increase his social status and knowledge resource too.

For this transaction of farmer there is a need to make him to make a real agri-preneur. He should have enough knowledge about market present and future, quality of his product which is to be needed to capture this market. If possible branding their products by forming cooperative structure, these lead to price stabilization and thus leads to food security.

All these can be achieved by a proper front end to back end data disseminations and vice-versa. This is where we all have to focus!!!!!!!!!!!!