The United Nations’ FAO or Food and Agriculture Organization as well as the International Telecommunication Union or ITU support the government in the formulation of a National E-agriculture Strategy. It is meant to promote IT or technology use to boost the flow of market information. Information Technology long has been seen as having huge potential for boosting the decision making process in agriculture. IT connected the world globally. Now, it is changing lifestyles and social consciousness in a dynamic manner. In all facets of the agriculture industry, IT is vital to managing and for the success of a business. Also, agriculture has been influenced by IT greatly.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS FOR THE FIELD OF AGRICULTURE

The Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1997 underscores the need of modernizing the agriculture and fisheries sectors via the transformation of these sectors from a resource-based into a technology-based industry, among other purposes. The gap of information in agriculture impacts the whole chain from farmers to traders, consumers, policy makers and is one of the leading challenges in the production of sustainable food. With the fast development of ICTs or information and communication technology, the agriculture sector could seize a huge opportunity to look for solutions that are cost-effective and hasten the flow or more reliable information and data.

The Department of Agriculture is tasked with the development of a strategy in collaboration with DICT or Department of Information and Communications Technology. It is expected to address ICT challenges and opportunities for the agricultural field in a manner that’s more efficient while acquiring new revenue streams, boosting livelihoods as well as contributing to the achievement of bigger national plans. Furthermore, the IT programs also aim to strengthen the government’s capacity of identifying, testing and implementing ICT services and solutions. The goal is to make ICT, via the National E-Agriculture Strategy support the services needed to make food affordable and available to the people. ICT is considered a vital instrument, which greatly help in enhancing food security, stimulate agriculture, and offer easier access to markets and information sources, which support rural livelihoods.

Information Technology is rapidly becoming more and more visible in society as well as in the field of agriculture. Technology is the way of how people utilize information, how information is computed and how it is being communicated to the people. It is important for people to have IT and computer. In order to participate and able to make informed decisions in the field of agriculture, one should be capable of gathering, processing as well as manipulating data. Information technology supports new methods for precision agriculture, such as a computerized farm machinery, which applies for pesticides and fertilizers. Animals are fed and then monitored by identification systems and electronic sensors. Online selling or buying is becoming popular all over the world. Nevertheless, it’s most vital role remains to be communication, and the web has provided a great opportunity of doing so.

There are numerous ways that IT could be used to exchange information effectively via communication, such as information kiosks that provide not just basic services like helps in education, email, health services, online trading, agriculture and irrigation, community services, expert systems that help determine marketing alternatives as well as optimal strategies for producers, integrated crop management systems for various crops. The use of information technology in some countries is quite advanced. In a rice processing industry context, the potential of IT could be broadly assessed under two heads, such as: a tool for rice milling productivity contribution and an indirect tool to empower millers to take quality and informed decisions that would have a positive impact on how rice processing and allied activities are performed.

The remote sensing techniques with the use of satellite technologies, agronomy, geographical information systems and soil sciences are used to boost rice output. The approach is capital intensive and useful where huge tracts of land are involved. Use of information technology in agriculture has grown fast in the past few years. Furthermore, it is increasingly being utilized to help managers come up with better decisions. IT however and the problem that is facing decision makers are evolving constantly. That is why the future information systems for research purposes would be considerably different compared to current systems due to the changes. Information technology has been one of the most aspired fields in the world these days. Integrating it with agriculture would greatly help any country in regulating its overall trade and economy. The various information technologies have brought about revolution in the agriculture field. Agriculture colleges and universities should prepare not just students to use new IT, but should also help farmers in better utilization of the web by various means, which include extension services as well as creating new specific sites. IT would go a long way in helping the agricultural sector in every country in the world to improve food and agricultural services and provide better information and knowledge on how to make the agriculture industry more efficient.