3.6.1. Agropedia

♤ Agropedia is a peer-group tool for interaction among the farmers.

♤ This is a comprehensive, integrated model for digitalized content of agricultural domain. This e-initiative intends to bring together a community through ICT enabled knowledge creating and organising platform with an attempt to leverage the current agricultural extension system.

♤ IIT Kanpur (agropedia platform), IIT Bombay and IIITM Kerala (multi-model delivery) are the three key partner organizations who are in charge of different projects and responsibilities along with ICRISAT- Hyderabad, NAARM- Hyderabad, GBPUAT- Pantnagar, UAS- Raichur under the aegis of the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP).

♤ ICRISAT is the consortium leader, which is responsible for the outputs and deliverables.

♤ Agropedia has been labelled as one stop solution for the Indian agro-sphere. Defining and developing the Knowledge-Model for understanding of the crop has been done first time ever in the world in order to accumulate codified and approved information about the crops with the support of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Rome.

♤ These models are essentially the structural representation by using symbols for tagging a particular piece of information and relationships between them. Following this, Chickpea, Pigeon pea, Sorghum and Groundnut.

♤ Knowledge-Models are developed at ICRISAT, Wheat, Sugarcane, Litchi and Vegetable pea are developed at GBPUAT and Rice is developed at IITK.