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CaneInfo is the culmination of a two-year research project entitled,
"Developing a user-centered website on sugarcane production technologies". About
35 million farmers grow and depend on sugarcane for their livelihood in India
and there is an urgent need to provide objective and research-based information
in time to assist these farmers and the extension agents in making informed
decisions. Research institutes that offer online cane related information, are
however, rare. Though used to a minimum at present, information technology is
sure to play a major role in farming in the near future.
This has prompted the Sugarcane research and extension system in
India, which was mostly print focused in nature, to shift to ‘access’
technologies, one of which is CaneInfo, you are browsing now...
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