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Executive Summary
Pakistan is an
agricultural country, as large number of its exports rely on the
agricultural projects. Every year significant agricultural yield loss
occurs due to many reasons like pest attacks on cash crops, hostile
weather conditions and most importantly poor on-the-farm and off-the-farm
management practices. The main aim of this project is to meet the yield
enhancement challenge by providing better agricultural data management
through a continuous analysis of dynamic agricultural scenarios to bring
about the second green revolution. Such data driven decision support
system will help in decision making at multiple levels such as for,
agricultural policy makers, extension workers, and most importantly the
farmers.
The data driven
decision making requires firstly, acquiring historical agricultural data
from multiple sources like pest-scouting, yield, farmer demographics and
social set-up surveys, agro-meteorological data collection and other
related areas. Secondly, integrating these data sets using modern
information management techniques such as Data warehousing, Data mining
and Online Analytical Processing. Thirdly, developing the efficient tools
for analytical exploration of this multi-variant data and lastly ensuring
timely dissemination of extracted information through appropriate means.
The key benefits of this project include:
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Different
Provincial and District governments will use the data warehouse to
propose and evaluate the agricultural policies and develop programs to
protect and promote agriculture in Pakistan.
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By using this
system, seed and fertilizer producers can compare yields and other
information to help the stakeholders.
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Different
agriculture departments can more effectively target such locations where
their services are most needed by using tehsil and district statistics,
resulting in economic benefit for farmers.
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Banks and Financial
institutions use the available data and intricate relationships to
identify their potential customers for opening new branches and
extending credit facilities to farmers.
Fore more details:
www.agroict.org
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