Agricol: An application for the betterment of farming community

The matter of great concern is that there exists wider gap between the proportion of the technologies generated by the public agricultural research system and technologies adopted by the farmers in India. One of the vital reasons for such wide gap is due to the lack of an appropriate extension/technology transfer model in agriculture that could establish better linkage between scientists and farmers in order to facilitate effective dissemination in a timely manner. Hence there is a need to develop suitable approach for technology transfer in agriculture. In order to bridge the gap between the technologies and the farming community, e-Velanmai project has been introduced. Under e-Velanmai, various applications and the projects are developed. Agricol, is one such application that can bridge the gap and it helps to provide the farming community with better solutions for the diseased plants in quickly manner.