ICT initiatives of ICAR & Areas of Collaboration - Cornell University

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ICT initiatives of ICAR & Areas of
Collaboration with Mann
Albert R Mann Library
Cornell University
19.01.2012
Himanshu
Scientist SS (Computer Applications)
Aruna T Kumar
Asstt. Editor & I/c Indian Journal of Animal Sciences
AGENDA
• About ICAR
• ICT initiatives in NARS
• E-Publishing in ICAR
• E-Publishing by Indian Agricultural
Research Societies
• Way Forward
Making a Difference in
NAIP
Indian Agriculture:
NATP
National Gene
The Journey of ICAR
Bank
IVLP
King Baudouin
Lab-to-Land
Award
programme
DARE
First KVK at
ASRB
Puducherry
First SAU at
Commodity Research Institutes
Pantnagar
under ICAR
ICAR
IARI as Deemed-to-be
University
Imperial Council of
Agricultural Research IARI, Pusa shifted to
New Delhi
Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory in
Imperial Agricultural Research Institute
Pune (shifted to Mukteshwar in 1893)
DARE - ICAR
Agriculture Minister &
General Body, ICAR Society
President, ICAR
Chairman, ASRB Secretary, DARE & Governing Body, ICAR
Director General, ICAR
Addl. Secretary, DARE (Fin.) & Addl. Secretary, DARE & Deputy Directors National Director
Financial Advisor, ICAR Secretary, ICAR General (NAIP)
45 Research Institutes Crop Science
4 Deemed Universities
Horticulture
6 National Bureaux
Natural Resource Management
17 National Research Centres
Animal Science
33 Directorates / Project Directorates / Zonal PDs
61 All India Coordinated Research Projects Fisheries
17 Network Projects
Engineering
State Agricultural Universities
55
(including one Deemed University Status) Education
01 Central Agricultural University
Extension Education
592 Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs)
India Today…
> 17% of the world’s human & 11% livestock
population
4.2% of the world’s water
3.287 m sq km area (2.4% of the world’s area)
141 m ha cultivated & 62 m ha net irrigated
138% cropping intensity
52% of workforce in agriculture
14.2% contribution to GDP
10.6% earning of total exports
ICT initiatives in NARS
 Agropedia
 CERA
 E-Granth
 Krishiprabha
 RKMP
 ePrints @ CMFRI
 eCourses
 mKrishi
 IPMnet
 AGRITECH Portal
 Strengthening statistical computing in ICAR
 E-Publishing in Agricultural Research
General View of Agropedia
http://www.agropedia.net
Knowledge Maps for
Crops: Rice, Pigeon pea,
Sugarcane, Chick pea,
litchi, Groundnut,
Sorghum, Safflower,
Vegetable pea and
Wheat

Multilingual editor (11
Indian languages)

Semantic search

Agro taggers
Agropedia- Rice Knowledge Map
Agropedia – Wheat Knowledge Map
Consortium for e-Resources in
Agriculture http://cera.jccc.in
Online access
to over 2,700
journals to 124
libraries in
NARS.
 Consortium includes publishers viz. Springer, Annual
Reviews, CSIRO, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Oxford Journals,
American Society of Agronomy, Informatics, Wiley and
Indian Journals
 Over 800,000 articles downloaded by researchers.
Impact
 Unprecedented research information access by the
researchers in NARS
IARI, New Delhi