Possibilities and Potentialities of Agricultural Informatics and Allied domains in Engineering Sciences with reference to India?An Academic Framework & Proposal

P.K. Paul¹ , R.R. Sinha² , Anil Bhuimalli³ , K.S. Tiwary⁴ , Pappachan Baby⁵ , Ricardo Saavedra⁶

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.7 , Issue.2 , pp.131-140, Jun-2020

Online published on Jun 30, 2020

Copyright © P.K. Paul, R.R. Sinha, Anil Bhuimalli, K.S. Tiwary, Pappachan Baby, Ricardo Saavedra . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Agricultural Informatics is an interdisciplinary technological science and is responsible for information and technological solutions in agriculture and allied sectors. Agricultural Informatics is also known with other nomenclatures as well. The field is growing rapidly and thus in many countries it is considered and offered as a field of study. Agricultural Informatics is a great solution in respect of designing and development of the smarter agricultural solution. Education systems is changing worldwide, various new programs, streams, nomenclatures have started to develop in developing and undeveloped nations significantly to reach the goal. Furthermore, it is worthy to note that Agricultural Informatics as a field apart from Science degrees is started with engineering streams with BTech and MTech degrees. However it is important to note that Engineering Degrees are not offered in all countries. In India and inits follower countries this is available significantly. In India Agricultural Informatics is already started with Engineering Degrees whereas internationally most of the universities not yet switched to Agricultural Informatics with BTech and MTech etc. The significance with the Agricultural Informatics in developing agricultural systems has developed effectively. There are great potentialities with Agricultural Informatics in other engineering degrees as well in the context of IT and Computing related subjects. This paper has provided a brief overview on Agricultural Informatics with its evolution and emerging importance. Paper is also focused on the proposed engineering degrees with the specializations of the Agricultural Informatics and allied nomenclature. As Agricultural Informatics is a branch of Information Science and thus here an MTech-Information Science with Agricultural Informatics specialization has been proposed to provide wider benefits to the students and researchers and future of Agricultural Informatics practice.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Agricultural Informatics, IT education, Engineering Degrees, ICT4D, Smart Agriculture, MTech, Emerging Degrees

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