Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Dear Sir / Madam Greetings! I wish to state that Tamil Nadu Agricultural University have developed Expert System for Agriculture and Animal Husbandry with network partnership of Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture, Bhuvaneswar, Orissa, Zonal Project Directorate, Zone VIII, Bangalore, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai and SAUs and KVKs coming under Zone VIII. The expert system for Paddy, Sugarcane, Banana under precision system, Ragi and Coconut crops have been developed along with Animal Husbandry enterprises namely Cattle & Buffalo, Sheep & Goat and Poultry in English, Tamil, Malayalam and kannada languages for the benefit of the farming community, extension workers and other stakeholders in Agriculture. The rule based expert system have been developed with 80 per cent of images which could be suitable for very ordinary farmers to progressive farmers to get diagnose report for field problem along with advisory report. The Crop Doctor / Animal Health Advisory, Decision Support System and Crop informatics have been added into the expert system framework. The advisory services and decision could be given for Seeds to Seeds in crop cultivation and entire animal husbandry practices by using this expert system. The Expert System Project have been launched on 25th January 2013 at Zonal Project Directorate, Zone VIII, Bangalore by Secretary DARE and DG, ICAR in the presence of Dr.Mahadevappa, Former Chairman, ASRB, DDG (Agrl. Extn), ICAR, Vice-Chancellor, UAS - Bangalore, Vice-Chancellor, TANUVAS, Chennai, Zonal Project Director, Zone VIII, Director, DRWA, Bhubaneswar, Director of Extensions from all SAUs coming under Zone VIII, Programme Coordinators of all the KVKs of Zone VIII and Media for the benefit of the Stakeholders in Agriculture. On behalf of all the project partners, PIs and CoPIs of the project, I take this opportunity to thank all the content generators, content sponsors, content validators, software engineers, farmers, extension workers, scientists who have directly and indirectly rendered their marvelous support for development of expert system for agriculture and animal husbandry. The Expert System in the form of DVD is available at e-Extension Centre, DOEE, TNAU, Coimbatore or send mail to me. Team: Dr.E.Vadivel, Dr.N.Sriram, Mr.R.Venkatachalam, Dr.R.Prabhukumar, Dr.N.Anandaraja, Dr.I.Muthuvel TNAU / ICAR

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