ICTs for Agriculture and Rural Development

Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to Swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

Mahatma Gandhi

Mission Statement During last decade, the tremendous progress in information technology (IT) is affecting all spheres of our life. For India, this progress in IT provides new opportunities to improve the utilization and performance of livelihood technologies such as agriculture, education, library, health and medical services, and artesian technologies. The research challenge here is to build cost-effective IT based systems to improve the living standards of Indian rural population. Center for Data Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad is carrying out research to build cost-effective IT based systems to accelerate Indian agricultural and rural development.

Projects The following are the on-going research projects:

Agricultural Projects
1. e-Sagu: Web-based Agricultural Expert Advice Dissemination System
  In this project, by exploiting advances in Information Technology (IT), we are making an effort to build a cost-effective agricultural information dissemination system to disseminate expert agriculture knowledge to the farming community to improve the crop productivity.
2. Pest Prediction Systems
  In this project we make an effort to understand pest population dynamics and build pest prediction systems by applying data mining techniques on pest surveillance data set of Helicoverpa Armegira, Bacterial Leaf Blight, Groundnut leaf miner regarding Chickpea, Pegionpea, Cotton, Groundnut, and Rice crops. This project is carried out in collaboration with ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad (India) and CRIDA, Hyderabad (India).
Other Projects
1. Point-to-Point Bus Transport System
  Trends in wireless technology have resulted in most of the commuters owning cell phones. By providing timely bus route and arrival information to these cell phones, it is possible to improve the bus occupancy. We have taken an initiative in this direction by building an automated bus information system for Hyderabad (India)city, which gives optimal paths given source and destination information.
2. Indian Movie Recommendation System
  In this project we are making effort to design the recommendation system to meet the requirements of Indian movie scenario.

Contact For more information regarding the projects of this center, please contact:

Dr. P.Krishna Reddy
Associate Professor,
International Institute of Information Technology
Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Pin: 500019, India

Phone: 91-40-23001967 Ext: 131
Fax: 91-40-23001413
E-mail: pkreddy AT iiit DOT net
Homepage: http://www.iiit.net/~pkreddy