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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Pune based Vanarai Trust, an NGO involved in rural development, under the presidentship of Mohan Dharia, has developed a web based software to help farmers to take investment decisions on farming operations on their land. The software has been developed by the Software Institute for Rural Development (SIRD), Pune and has been jointly funded by NABARD under its Rural Innovation Fund and by the Department of Science & Technology, government of India. The software covers 65 farm and allied activities which are relevant to the agro climatic conditions prevailing in Maharashtra. The software provides all necessary information related to the selected farm / allied activities like the quantity and source of inputs like seeds, the farm practices to be followed (spacing of plants, soil nutrient requirements, irrigation requirements, fertilizer/ preventive pesticides applications needed, etc), expected yield under the farm conditions, the prevailing market prices for the produce and the overall profitability of taking up the activity at the farm level.
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