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KVK Poonch celebrates Digital India Week 7/6/2015 12:11:52 AM Early Times Report Jammu, July 5 : Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Poonch under the patronage of Directorate of Extension, SKUAST-Jammu celebrated Digital India Week by organizing two day vocational training programme for rural youth on "Applications of ICT in Agriculture." According to press release, while welcoming the participants, Dr. Sanjay Swami, Programme Coordinator of KVK-Poonch highlighted that Digital India is a flagship programme of the Government of India that aims to "transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy". The focus is on being transformative to realize IT (Indian Talent) + IT (Information Technology) = IT (India Tomorrow). He further emphasized that Digital India is not for urban population. It is mostly for rural areas. We have more than 65 crores of people using mobile now with data and 70 per cent population living in rural area. Use of Mobile technologies as a tool of intervention in agriculture is increasing day by day. He urged the young rural youths to take maximum advantages of the technology and start smart farming on their small land holdings to transform this hilly district in the most productive district of J&K. Mohammad Qasim, Programme Assistant (Computers) also interacted with the participants and said that with the booming mobile, wireless, and Internet industries, ICT has found a foothold even in poor smallholder farms and in their activities. The ability of ICTs to bring refreshed momentum to agriculture appears even more compelling in light of rising investments in agricultural research, the private sector's strong interest in the development and spread of ICTs, and the upsurge of organizations committed to the agricultural development agenda. All the participants show keen interest in this new field of ICT and asked many questions while interacting with the experts. Rukhsar Tabassum, one of the active participants thanked the team of KVK Poonch for enlightening them with the latest applications of ICT in agriculture. She assured from participant's side that they will make full use of the technology and will try their best to do smart farming.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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