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Community Radio: Reaching the unreached
Saswati Paik
Radio Ujjas: Greening the ears for the kutch people
Preeti Soni,Stalin K
Low power FM radio: indian universities jump into broadcasting
Mahesh Acharya
Community Technologies: Ham radio in Bangladesh
A.H.M.Bazlur Rahman
Community Participation: Community radio initiative in Jharkhand
Sudhir Pal
Radio Madanpokhara in Nepal: The old, the new and the hybrid radio
Kishor Pradhan
Internews initiatives: Independent radio in Afghanistan
Sanjar Qiam
Anna's FM 90.4 MHz: India's first campus community radio>
Dr. R.Sreedhar
At a glance: South Asia potpourri
Saswati Paik
Radio for island communities: 'Tambuli' in Phillipine
Indonesia and Thialand: Booming radio revolution
Jayalakshmi Chittoor
Community radio in East Timor: Promoting Democracy
James Scambary
Columns
Book Review
Jayalakshmi Chittoor
Web Analysis: community Radio Network
ICT and Education: Role of community radio
Interview
Kapil Sibal
'Agriculture/water' quiz answers
What's on
In Fact: Community Radio Virtual Library
Rendezvous
c4d workshop
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Answer to Quiz in July issue, 2004

  1. (a) AgFind (http://www.agfind.com),
    (b) AgriSurf (http://www.agrisurf.com),
    (c) Web-agri (http://www.web-agri.com),
    (d) @griculture online (http://www.agriculture.com/search),and
    (e) AgriMeta Search (http://www.agrimetasearch.com) are all agricultural search engines.
  2. Iguaçu Falls, Brazil on March 13-15, 2002. The congress is a “collaborative effort among agricultural information technology associations worldwide.” For details, visit the Web site http://wcca.ifas.ufl.edu/. The second congress, along with 4th International Conference of the Asian Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA), is scheduled to take place on August 9-12, 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand. For details, visit the Web site http://www.afitaandwcca2004.net.
  3. (a) World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome, created in 1989. It is a portal for worldwide agricultural information management and dissemination and has many specialised information systems including FAOSTAT, EMPRES, FIVIMS, and AGRIS. For details, visit the Web site http://www.fao.org/waicent/portal/about_en.asp,
    (b) FAO Statistical Databases. For details, visit the Web site http://apps.fao.org/default.htm,
    (c) Emergency Prevention System (EMPRES), established in 1994, for transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases. For details, visit the Web site http://www.fao.org/empres/,
    (d) Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems, networks of national information systems that assemble, analyse and disseminate data on food insecurity and vulnerability. For details, visit the Web site http://www.fivims.org/index.jspx?lang=en , and
    (e) An international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology, established in 1974, in which 240 national, international and intergovernmental organisations are participating. For details, visit the Web site http://www.fao.org/agris/.
  4. (a) European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Viborg, Denmark. For details, visit the Web site http://www.efita.net/,
    (b) Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture. For details, visit the Web site http://www.jsai.or.jp/afita/,
    (c) Pan American Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture (PanAFITA). For details, visit the Web site http://www.panfita.org, (d) International Network for Information Technology in Agriculture, Germany. For details, visit the Website http://www.infita.org/,
    (e) Japanese Society of Agricultural Informatics (JSAI). For details, visit the Web site http://www.jsai.or.jp/english/,
    (f) Indian Society of Agricultural Information Technology, Dharwad, Karnataka. For details, visit the Web site http://www.insait.net/, and
    (g) International Institute of Agroinformatics and Agromanagement, Meerut, India. For details, visit the Web site http://www.agroinformatics.org/.
  5. (a) Agricultural On Line Access is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) in the United States and its cooperators. For details visit the Web site http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/help/aboutagricola.html, and
    (b) Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/). The AGORA website has been developed in close cooperation between Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and Cornell University, with funding provided by the Rockefeller Foundation (Source: http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2003/23019-en.html).
  6. (a) ikisan (http://www.ikisan.com/index.htm), set up by Ikisan Limited, Hyderabad (Nagarjuna group), is a multilingual agricultural portal, (b) MahindraKisan Mitra (http://www.mahindrakisanmitra.com), is a tractor portal set up by tractor manufacturer, Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd., (c) KisanBazaar (http://www.kisanbazaar.com / http://www.kisan.com, / http://www.kisan.net) is an agricultural marketing portal which at present offers free exchange of information for sale and purchase of all kinds of agricultural produce. (d) The portal of Kisan Dehydration (http://www.kisandehydration.com/index.htm) - a manufacturing unit at village Bhojapara, Gondal, district Rajkot (Gujarat), specialising in manufacturing of dehydrated onions, garlic and other vegetables, and (e) An automatic teller machine (ATM)-enabled card for farmers launched by Canara Bank on a pilot basis, at its Tavarekere branch in Bangalore Rural district (Source: The Hindu, April 1, 2004, http://www.hindu.com/2004/04/01/stories/2004040105980500.htm).
  7. Merlin. For details, visit the Web site http://www.fullwood.com/Merlin2.htm.
  8. Grameen Communications, a not-for-profit information technology (IT) company formed in 1997, and a member of Grameen family of enterprises founded by Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder of well-known Grameen Bank, which pioneered the concept of micro credit. It was initially funded by International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada. For details, visit the Web sites http://www.grameen-info.org/vcip/index.html, and http://www.grameen-info.org/bank/index.html.
  9. (a) Computerised rural information systems project (CRISP), launched in 1986 by the department of rural development, ministry of rural development, government of India, for facilitating district rural development agencies (DRDAs) for monitoring poverty alleviation schemes through a computer-based information system (CBIS). Its latest version is RuralSoft, and
    (b) (i) An e-commerce solution introducing rural products to the Internet surfers, thus helping the rural poor, (ii) A scalable software, available in three versions, for processing data of official poverty alleviation schemes, (iii) Panchayati raj institution accounting software for monitoring funds, expenditure, revenue, and reporting, and (iv) A customisable browser that enables a rural community to build its gateway Web site along with local content and connection with other knowledge sources and services. For details, visit the Web site http://crisp.nic.in/products.asp.
  10. (a) Department of Agriculture and Co-operation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India Network (DACNET). The scheme is being executed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) http://dacnet.nic.in/objectives.asp,
    (b) Agricultural Research Information System Network (ARISNET) is a network of agricultural research, extension and educational institutions in India over NICNET; a satellite based computer communication network of NIC called NICNET. http://dacnet.nic.in/arisnet/,
    (c) National Informatics Centre Network (NICNET)-based Agricultural Marketing Information System Network (AGMARKNET (d) NICNET- based Agricultural Information System Network (AGRISNET), an intranet over the NICNET.(Source:http://agmarknet.nic.in/guidelines11.htm)
  11. (a).Claimed to be the first agricultural portal for India, it was conceived and managed by Dr N. Sandhya Shenoi, FAO Fellow and Senior Scientist, National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM), Hyderabad in collaboration with the AIM Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. For details, visit the Web site http://web.aces.uiuc. edu/AIM/diglib/india/default.htm,
    (b) The Web site created by Prof. M. A. Pai of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois as a non-profit initiative. It contains 15 channels including one on agriculture which is updated daily (http://www.indusscitech.net/agriculture.htm),
    (c) The Agricultural Instructional Media Lab (AIM Lab) founded in 1993 to support instructional computing in College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. (http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/AIM/john/aim.htm),
    (d) Claimed to be world’s first agricultural portal, it was created by the AIM Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. (http://w3.aces.uiuc.edu/InfoAg/Cyber Farm)
  12. Magarpatta, in Pune, Maharashtra. The project started with a loan of Rs 2 crore in 2000 from HDFC. Tower I with 300,000 sq ft of space is full. Tower II is fully leased out. Tower III will be ready by June 2004. The project will have a built up area of 20 lakh sq ft of space by 2005.So far Rs 450 crore have been invested in the project. The Magar families, the major landholders, propose to create a 40 lakh sq ft tech park. (Source: Datta, Sudipta (2004): 120 farmers pooled land to create this 400-acre cyber city, The Indian Express, New Delhi, March 30, Tuesday, pp1-2, http://www.expressindia.com/; visit also http://www.magarpattacity.com/index1.htm).
  13. Shree Kamdhenu Electronics Private Limited, formed in November 1996, manufactures and markets its automatic milk collection systems under the brand name AKASHGANGATM. It is a totally automatic microprocessor / computer based milk collection system, which has been specifically developed to meet the needs of milk cooperatives and farmers. The Centre for Electronic Governance at Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has made the company an implementation partner for its dairy information systems kiosk (DISK) and dairy portal (DP) projects. The project was a finalist in Stockholm Challenge Award 2002. (http://akashganga.co.in/index.htm).
  14. M.R.Morarka – GDC Rural Research Foundation, Jaipur, Rajasthan It has also started a post-graduate diploma in organic agriculture management (PGDOAM) (http://www/pgdoam.com) in Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology (MPUAT), Rajasthan (http://www.mpuat.ac.in). For details visit the Web site http://www.morarkango.com/about.html.
  15. Dairy information services kiosk (DISK) is an eGovernance project for the dairy sector, which has two components: 1. An application running at the village dairy society level, which has Internet connectivity, and 2. A dairy portal (DP). It is being implemented by the Centre for Electronic Governance (CEG), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. (http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/disk.htm).
  16. It is a call centre (toll-free number 1100) set up by Government of Andhra Pradesh in July 2003 exclusively to support queries from farmers on agriculture and horticulture related issues. In February 2004 its scope was expanded to cover all other departments. (Source: Raghuveer, March 18, 2004, praghuveer@ap.gov.in).
  17. On February 10, 2004. The commission is required to make its recommendations as soon as practicable and in any case within a period of two years. For details, visit the commission’s Web site http://www.kisanayog.org/.
  18. RESOURCESAT-1 (IRS – P6) (http://www.isro.org/newsletters/spaceindia/octdec2003/webpgs/pg09.htm).
  19. Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal by Department of Space, Government of India on November 1, 1995. As many as 14 countries, namely, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Indonesia, India, Kazakstan, Kyrghyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, and Uzbekistan are participating in the centre as signatory countries. (http://www.cssteap.org/).
  20. (a) The Science of Plant Life by Surapala, a Sanskrit text written 1000 years ago about management of trees and other economic plants,
    (b) The 8th century Sanskrit treatise on bvagriculture by Kashyapa containing, among other things, recommendations for identifying fertile soils,
    (c) A nearly 2000-year-old Sanskrit manuscript containing, among other things, ancient models for predicting rainfall, and construction of a plow and other implements,
    (d) A 17th century Persian manuscript, containing, among other things, recommendations for growing about 100 horticultural and field crops, and
    (e) Dear to the World, the Science of Plant Life, a treatise on horticulture of Rajasthan in western India written by Chakrapani Mishra, a scholar in the court of Maharana Pratap (1540 - 1597). (Source: Asian Agri-History Foundation, Secunderabad, http://www.agri-history.org/publications.htm).

  
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