Farmer Response towards the Initial Agriculture Information Dissemination Mobile Prototype

Silva, Lasanthi N. C. De; Goonetillake, Jeevani S.; Wikramanayake, Gihan; Ginige, Athula

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39637-3_22

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“…There was universal agreement among the farmers participated in the field trial to varying degree (strongly agree, agree, moderately agree) to the question "All information for the crop selection stage is provided". This information was provided to the farmers using farmer context via low cost Smart phones running Android operating system [33].…”

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An Ontological Approach to Meet Information Needs of Farmers in Sri Lanka

Walisadeera

Wikramanayake

Ginige

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Farmers in Sri Lanka are badly affected by not being able to get vital information required to support their farming activities in a timely manner. Some of the required information can be found in government websites, agriculture department leaflets, and through radio and television programs on agriculture. Due to its unstructured and varied format, and lack of targeted delivery methods, this knowledge is not reaching the farmers. Therefore, this knowledge needs to be provided not only in a structured way, but also in a context-specific manner. To address this shortcoming an international collaborative research project was launched to develop a Social Life Network to provide necessary information to farmers using mobile devices. Agricultural information has strong local characteristics in relation to climate, culture, history, languages, and local plant varieties. These local characteristics as well as the need to provide information in a context-specific manner made us to develop an ontology for agriculture. In this paper we present the approach we used to derive contextual information related to the farmers and the ontological approach that we developed to meet information needs of the farmers at various stages of the farming life cycle.

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An Ontological Approach to Meet Information Needs of Farmers in Sri Lanka

Walisadeera

Wikramanayake

Ginige

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…We used a mobile based application for this evaluation. A Mobile based application was developed to provide information by using this ontology [24]. The first evaluation was done only for crop selection with a group of 32 farmers in Sri Lanka [24].…”

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“…A Mobile based application was developed to provide information by using this ontology [24]. The first evaluation was done only for crop selection with a group of 32 farmers in Sri Lanka [24]. We have gathered suggestions from farmers and other stakeholders of the domain for our future designs.…”

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Developing a community-based knowledge system: a case study using Sri Lankan agriculture

Walisadeera

Ginige

Wikramanayake

2016

Int J on Adv. in ICT for Emerging Countries

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Abstract-The Agriculture sector plays a vital role in Sri Lanka's economy. Not having an agricultural knowledge repository that can be easily accessed by people in agriculture community in Sri Lanka within their own context, is a major problem. As a solution, a large user centred ontology for Sri Lankan farmers was developed to provide required information/knowledge not only in a structured and complete way, but also in a context-specific manner. Since this problem is not only limited to farmers, we extend this for every one working in the agriculture domain. We validate the ontology in terms of accuracy and quality. The online knowledge base based on the ontology with a SPARQL endpoint was created to share and reuse the domain knowledge that can be queried based on user context. A Mobile based application and a Web based application were developed to provide information/knowledge by using this ontology. These applications are also used to evaluate the ontology by getting the feedbacks from users to the knowledge in the ontology. It is very difficult to maintain a large complex ontology. To maintain our ontology, we identified various processes that are required to develop and maintain ontology as a collaborative process. A semi-automatic end-toend ontology management system was developed to manage the developed ontology and the knowledge base. It provides the facilities to reuse, share, modify, extendand prune the ontology components as required. The facilities to capture users' information needs and search domain information in user context are also included. In this paper, we present a summary of the overall development process of the ontology including the end-to-end ontology management system.

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“…The agricultural information service system is an important guarantee for the development of agriculture [1] . The application of science and technology needs agricultural information service to concrete realization.…”

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The Development Countermeasures of Rural Information Service System in Northeast China

Hong-liang¹,

Xie²,

Wen³

2018

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Abstract. Agricultural information service plays an important role in agricultural modernization. China's northeast agricultural information service system construction has made great progress. But it can not meet the current needs of modern agricultural construction. Taking Liaoning Province as an example, first-hand data of information service was obtained through questionnaire and field interview. The countermeasures and suggestions were put forward for the construction of agricultural information service system in view of the outstanding problems in the agricultural information service system. Agricultural information service should depend on new midea in the future.The results can provide reference for agricultural information service in developing countries.

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Farmer Response towards the Initial Agriculture Information Dissemination Mobile Prototype

Cited by 24 publications

References 13 publications

An Ontological Approach to Meet Information Needs of Farmers in Sri Lanka

An Ontological Approach to Meet Information Needs of Farmers in Sri Lanka

Developing a community-based knowledge system: a case study using Sri Lankan agriculture

The Development Countermeasures of Rural Information Service System in Northeast China

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