Innovative ICT and
Knowledge Sharing
Platforms
Infosys Campus, Hyderabad
3rd December 2012
Himanshu
Directorate 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)
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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)
e-Publishing in Agricultural
Research
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)
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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