PAMETI Holds Workshop On Role Of ICTs
Author(s): City Air NewsA related photograph. Ludhiana, July 24, 2015: "It is vital to adopt cost-effective, innovative and modern approach to agricultural knowledge management and reform the agricultural extension system" said Dr H.S.Dhaliwal,...
Ludhiana, July 24, 2015: "It is vital to adopt cost-effective, innovative and modern approach to agricultural knowledge management and reform the agricultural extension system" said Dr H.S.Dhaliwal, Director, Punjab Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute (PAMETI), Punjab Agricultural University (PAU). He was speaking at the workshop on "Role of ICTs in Knowledge Management" wherein 22 participants from state agriculture and allied departments, and ATMA participated.
Dr Dhaliwal said the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the last decade has opened new avenues, which can play an important role in gathering, organizing, analyzing and sharing the agricultural knowledge.
Dr Chander Mohan, Additional Director Communication, PAU dwelt on Decision Support System for control of late blight disease in potato.
During the programme, Ms Bharti Madan, Deputy Director (Information Technology), PAMETI informed about the use of various search engines, agricultural market information systems and web based knowledge portals like Agropedia, AGMARKNET, Agrisnet etc.
Dr Vishal Bector, an expert of agricultural engineering, persuaded trainees to change their mindsets, widen their horizon and have a positive attitude towards ICTs implementation.
Er. Rohit Sharma, expert of Processing and Food Engineering gave demonstrations on expert system modules developed for wheat and paddy.
Mr Manish Sehgal and Mr Gurpreet Saini from Reuters Market Light (RML), Mohali discussed the information services being provided to the farmers by RML through mobile phones. They also explained the benefits of the android mobile application being offered by them.
An exposure visit to AIR FM Gold Radio Station, Ludhiana and Doordarshan Kendra, Jalandhar was also organized. Trainees enthusiastically participated in the live broadcasting of agricultural programme "Mera Pind, Mere Khet." During their visit to FM radio, S Navdeep Singh, Programme Executive, told them about the process of radio programme recording and gave tips regarding how to deliver radio talk.
S. Amrik Singh, ADO, Gurdaspur shared his experience of using social media like Whatsapp for reaching the farmers without any time lag.