Information Technology for Agricultural Production/ Education and Management

This is a comprehensive book dealing with the fundamentals and applied aspects of Information Technology (IT), relevant to Agricultural scenario especially applicable to India. The first part deals with the fundamentals of IT, beginning with computer itself and then detailing about the software, network and internet, which should not only be useful to the beginners who are totally unaware about the computer environment, but also should help the advance users in making the concept more clear. The second part covers the applied aspects of IT for agriculture in terms of Education, Research, Extension and Production. In addition, chapters on Bioinformatics and Challenges further widen the scope of the book making it almost complete as far as the need for the knowledge on Agricultural IT is concerned. The book is intended to fulfill the requirements of not only the students, teachers, scientists and extension workers concerned with agriculture, but also has the content to satisfy the knowledge desire of policy makers and other concerned officials, who believe in capabilities of IT in tapping the real agriculture potential and ultimately in national development.