Agriculture Knowledge Dissemination System

A workshop was held on 22nd, July 2011 for a Brain Storming Session to decide the content for Agriculture Knowledge System being implemented by World Development Foundation New Delhi and Bihar Agriculture University. The Project on Agricultural Knowledge Dissemination System (ANDS) in Bihar includes: (1) consultancy and system implementation for setting up an Electronic Media & Production Centre (EMPC) comprising of audio and video studios, PCR room, recording/edition room, digital archives (2) dissemination system consisting of web-casting using Web Portal for agriculture related services, SMS facilities for farmers and high speed internet connectivity between BAU and five KVKs and common Services Centers (CSCs) using available Internet with these CSCs(3) developing 300 hrs of information and recommended package of practices for the mandate crops in the form of video/audio/multimedia.