Linux Journal: Taking Free Software to the Farmers and Fields of India

“Thanks to work done by the prestigious Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT-Bombay) and its partners, IT-savvy and
knowledge-hungry people across rural India now can find relevant,
demand-driven farming knowledge on the aAqua.org Web site. So far,
the site has been a great way to bring together people such as
Prasad Kaledhonkar, who has a clue about what the white patterns
emerging on tomato plant leaves are; farmer’s daughter Niyatee
Nilesh, who wants advice on buying agricultural land; and Shirish,
from rural Maharashtra, who wants to learn about using waste water
from the school kitchen to irrigate gardens and crops…”

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