D.A.A.T.T.C., Karimnagar organised Training cum Demonstration Programme on “Crop Darpan – A Crop Diagnostic Tool” on 20-07-2021 at Rajanna Sircilla District

Despite the variety of agricultural extension approaches, which include information technology based approaches, the majority of farmers in India are not acquiring actionable agricultural information. Farmers are facing difficulty in acquiring actionable agricultural advice in a real-time manner from call centers and web portals due to communication and perceptual issues. To enable the farmer to get the actionable agro-advisory using smartphone, IIIT, Hyderabad have made an effort to build a smartphone-based crop disease diagnosis guide, called Crop Darpan system by exploiting data science and the capabilities of smart phone. It is assumed that the farmer possesses a smart phone with Internet connection and visits the field. For any crop, we have proposed a framework of smartphone-based field diagnosis guide (we name it as a Crop Darpan) for guiding the farmer to identify the field problem and acquire the actionable agro-advice. In this view D.A.A.T.T. Centre, Karimnagar has organized Training cum Demonstration Programme on “Crop Darpan – A Crop Diagnostic Tool” on 20-07-2021 at Vattemula village of Vemulawada Rural Mandal in Rajanna Sircilla District. Mr.K. Shekar, Coordinator said that with the rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies, information and data can be effectively generated, stored and used by farmers to improve agricultural productivity. For this, smart farming technologies using mobile applications (apps) that help reduce costs, maximize yields and increase profits are being employed. He informed all the participants to get subscribe the PJTSAU- YouTube channel and IIDS-AKPS service among the farmers. Dr. K. Madan Mohan Reddy, Scientist (ToT) has expressed that the mobile technology is transforming access to information among farming masses. Emergence of digital revolution and internet penetration in the rural areas has enthralled farmers to access to new apps that would keep pace with the modern technology and gave brief description of the Crop Darpan mobile application. Later the technical staff working under the guidance of P. Krishna Reddy, Professor, IIIT, Hyderabad has given detailed information & use of Crop Darpan mobile application and also gave hands on training to the farmers on Crop Darpan mobile application. Sri. Bhaskar, Assistant Director of Agriculture, Vemulawada, Rajanna Sircilla District has expressed that the mobile applications are very much needed to the farming community to get timely information at their doorsteps and also gave the feedback information to be included in the Crop Darpan mobile application. The Mandal Agricultural Officer Sri. Chandran Kumar, Agricultural Extension Officers Smt. Sunitha, Vice MPP Mr. Thirupathi, MPTC Mr. Boddu Ramulu, Rythu Samanvaya Samithi Coordinators Mr. Anjaiah & Mr. Parashuramulu and 35 farmers were farmers participated in the programme.