Address: Smt Sameena Mukhija Technical Director, National Informatics Centre, Department of Information Technology, New Delhi, India

Objective  :

The major objectives of AgRIS will include among others:

    “Development of Decision Support Systems (DSS) on Production Practices and Systems”. The DSS proposed under AgRIS will facilitate farmers in adopting appropriate agricultural production practices,

    “Creation of Metadata” to become the Country’s initiative of “National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) on Agriculture”, and

    Preparation of Guidelines on standardized methodology/best practices to be used for building Agricultural Resource Information System in similar districts of the Country.