Standardization of Stress Test Protocol for successful implementation of Agricultural Applications – A Study at ICRISAT

Abstract

The new Sustainable Development Goals have once again underlined the importance of agriculture development if want to achieve global food & nutrition security and end poverty. On one side the agriculture is effected with myriad of challenges like climate change which is effecting agricultural production and productivity. To mitigate the major challenges and making the farmer resilient to these negative forces, provision of knowledge and services directly to the farmers is one of the important aspect which certainly cannot be ignored. The advances in computing hardware and ICT infrastructure really allowing to implement knowledge as well as services directly to the farmers. The current ICT infrastructure in rural village is improving with advancement of National Optic Fibre Network (NOFN). NOFN which is popularly called as Bharat Broadband to connecting all revenue villages (Gram Panchayats) of India with 100 Mbps band width. Infrastructure in villages is improving but still there are challenges with respect to network in rural areas.