Innovative ICT and Knowledge Sharing

Platforms

Infosys Campus, Hyderabad3rd December 2012

HimanshuDirectorate of Knowledge Management in

Agriculture(DKMA), ICAR, New Delhi

Knowledge Management in Agricultural Research

Knowledge Innovative Repository in Agriculture for North-East (KIRAN)

Knowledge Management Portal on Rice (http://www.rkmp.co.in)

Knowledge Management Portal on Wheat, Pulses, Oilseeds, Fruits and Vegetable Crops (http://www.agropedia.net)

ICAR Portal for Agricultural Research Content Management Information and Dissemination

e-Learning in Agricultural Education

Undergraduate courseware for Agriculture, Veterinary and Animal Husbandry, Dairy Technology, Home Science, Horticulture, Agricultural Engineering, Fisheries using Learning Management System - Moodle

Over 426 courses and more than 13772 lessons developed involving more than 100 teachers

e-Learning in Agricultural Education

Open access policy for research journals -The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences and The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences.

Online e-Publishing system for Agricultural Research Journals implemented. Portal currently hosts 15 journals online. (http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal)

7376 doctoral thesis in agricultural research digitized. (http://202.141.47.8:8080/equestthesis)

e-Learning in Agricultural Education• Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences

• Indian Journal of Animal Sciences

• Indian Journal of Fisheries

• Fisheries Technology

• Indian Farming

• Indian Horticulture

• Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

• Journal of Horticultural Sciences

• Journal of Agricultural Engineering

• Indian journal of Veterinary Medicine

• Indian Journal of Veterinary Anatomy

• Indian Journal of Dairy Science

• Indian Phytopathology

• Journal of The Indian Society of Soil Science

• Journal of Cotton Research & Development

e-Publishing in Agricultural Research

AgriCat an online Union Catalogue (subset of WorldCat) of the holdings of 12 major libraries of ICAR Institutes and SAUs. AgriCat contains 0.4

million records. (http://www.agricat.worldcat.org)

More than 3 million pages of books at major ICAR libraries digitized, target is 20 million pages. Implemented DSpace for online digital repository. (http://egranth.ac.in)

Online repository of Fisheries research. Repository Contents include Articles (6244), Books (280), Book Section (500), Conference or workshop item (826), Datasets (14), Monographs (270), Others (44), Teaching Resources (168), Thesis (166). (http://eprints.cmrfri.org.in)

e-Publishing in Agricultural Research

Advanced Online Resources

Access to over 2700 research journals online in 124 major research institutes and agricultural universities from publishers like Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Springer, Annual Reviews, CSIRO, Oxford Journals, American Society of Agronomy, Informatics, Wiley and Indian Journals (http://cera.jccc.in)

Statistical computing systems implemented online for advanced analysis of agricultural research data by the researchers in NARS

High Bandwidth connectivity in AUs and Institutes

High Priority Areas for ICT in ICAR

Priority to ICT research in agricultural education and extension

National Agricultural Bioinformatics Grid

Center for Simulation and Modeling in Agriculture

Systems for Climate Resilient Agriculture research in NARS

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