ARD
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Agriculture and Rural Development(ARD)
The center is carrying out teaching, research and development with aim to build ICT-based systems and methodologies to accelerate Indian agriculture and rural development.
The faculty is involved in imparting knowledge regarding sustainable agricultural production systems and environmental issues so that students can carry out research in the area of societal development by extending developments in ICTs.
Since 2004, effort is going on, in collaboration with Media Lab Asia, to build an IT-based personalized and scalable agro-advisory system called e-Sagu with an aim to improve farm productivity, proftability and sustainability by delivering quality personalized (farm-specifc) agro-expert advice in a timely manner to each farm at the farmer’s door-steps. So far, we have developed e-Sagu and operationalized it in 300 villages covering six districts for 50 agriculture crops besides fsh and prawn.
Major Achievements
- CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Project Award 2005-06 (overall winner)
- Manthan Award 2007- India’s best e-Content Development
- Finalist in the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008
Faculty
P Krishna Reddy(Head),B Bhaskar Reddy
Students
