Not AvailableIntegrated Pest Management (IPM) is knowledge intensive requires holistic approach,
expert advice timely decision making and action on fast track. Needs of farmer in pest
management revolves around pest diagnostics, surveillance, forecasting and dissemination
of expert information in short time. Recent improvement form research brought
considerable change in the cropping system and allowed farmer to grow several crops
throughout the year, which were very seasonal in the past. IPM practitioners or farmers
require timely access to the relevant pest management information/knowledge and
expertise so to reduce the pesticide load to have better soil and human health. So the
improved methods of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) such as Decision
Support Systems (DSSs) greatly help the farmers in accessing the pest management
information and expertise. DSSs are software tools that support decision-making activities.
They collect, organize, integrate and analyze all types of information required for decision
making and finally use the analysis to recommend the most appropriate action. One such
ICT based pest surveillance and advisory services for rice in Raisen district of Madhya
Pradesh was initiated in active collaboration of M/s Agreeta and M/S Dawat Foods Private
ltd wherein ICAR-NCIPM collaborated as consultant.Not Availabl