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Protecting crops eSagu way
Eleven years after intensive research and experiments, a computer scientist at IIIT-Hyderabad has developed ‘eSagu’ system with the help of Internet and Computer-based Technologies (ICTs) to guide farmers in handling agricultural issues from the time of sowing to harvesting, preventing damage and loss of crop.
Hyderabad: Eleven years after intensive research and experiments, a computer scientist at IIIT-Hyderabad has developed ‘eSagu’ system with the help of Internet and Computer-based Technologies (ICTs) to guide farmers in handling agricultural issues from the time of sowing to harvesting, preventing damage and loss of crop.
Prof P Krishna Reddy, who hails from Malkapur village in Station Ghanpur mandal of Warangal district, worked five years in Japan. He understood that lack of timely knowledge about crops was one of the reasons behind the suicide of farmers in Warangal district in 1997. That motivated him to develop a technology that would help farmers.
“Basing on an X-Ray report a doctor can take the decision to conduct an operation or not. Why can’t an agriculture scientist by examining colour photographs of crops take a decision what farmer has to do to protect the crop? In this way I developed an idea of personalised agro advisory system where every farmer will get advice on the condition of his farm once in ten days from the sowing to harvest,” says Krishna Reddy.
Encouraged by the results of experiment conducted in 2004 in Warangal district, Krishna Reddy said every farmer got an additional benefit of Rs 3,082 by saving not to purchase fertilisers and got extra one and half quintal of cotton.
By:V Naveen Kumar
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