Electronic Solutions against Agricultural Pests (eSAP), is an ICT solution in the field of Plant protection. It is a dedicated system that effectively integrates Mobile communications, Tablet-based technologies and Cloud solutions to bring different players of the agricultural ecosystem including farmers, agricultural universities and policy makers to interact on a single platform in real time enabling two-way dissemination of real time information strengthening the agricultural sector of a nation.
The eSAP uniquely addresses crop health management issue structured with multimedia-based presentation of information in the field devices transcending language and literacy barriers. It is the first solution to enable on-field identification and quantification of pest problem along with instant solutions. It also generates and synthesizes real time data of pest situations of a region (country) and makes it available over its web solution to other players in the agriculture sector.
Deployment of eSAP technology started since January 2013 onwards after pilot scale studies during 2012 under the aegis of University of Agricultural sciences, Raichur and has spread to all the districts under other Agricultural Universities in Karnataka.
Outcome of eSAP application
- Large scale deployment
e-SAP has reached over 1,00,000 farmers covering 26crops in 25 districts of Karnataka involving all the five (5) agricultural universities.
- Rural Employment
More than 100 extension workers recruited under various projects have received employment opportunities.
- Effective use of pesticides
The opportunities for selling ineffective (and sometimes, spurious) substances has drastically come down. The quantity of pesticides applied has also been according to the prescription, which has reduced indiscriminate usage of pesticides.
- Scientific pest management
eSAP has helped farmers overcome a major difficulty - reliable identification of their crop pest problems. Further, eSAP has effectively driven the concept of quantification of the pest problem and has introduced the concept of pest-intensity based management system. Today, many farmers receiving printed prescriptions carry it to the retailers and demand the same to be given to them. It has had a significant impact on the interactions between the pesticide retailers and farmers. Their confidence levels for tackling pest problems have increased. This is largely because of the fact that they are completely involved in the identification and quantification process by the extension functionary.
Looking into the utility of the application, Govt. of Karnataka has sanctioned Rs. 5.00 crores for state wide implementation. The mandate of the project of UAS, Raichur is to develop state level crop content to enable uniform pest management practices, empowering officers of the Dept. of Agriculture on handling the application, developing pest prediction and forecasting models for better pest management and integration of eSAP into other governmental portals like Bhoomi, K-KISSAN, KSRCAC, KSNDMC etc.
Tene Agricultural Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru is the IT partner for eSAP
For Further Details Contact:
Dr. PRABHURAJ. A
PROFESSOR and
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (eSAP)
Dept. of Entomology
College of Agriculture
UAS, Raichur 584104, Karnataka, India
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