Multipath for Agricultural and Rural Information Services in China
Abstract
Internet cannot provide perfect information services
for farmers in rural regions in China, because farmers in rural regions
can hardly access the internet by now. But the wide coverage of mobile
signal, telephone line, and television network, etc. gave us a chance to
solve the problem. The integrated pest management platform of Northern
fruit trees were developed based on the integrated technology, which can
integrate the internet, mobile and fixed-line telephone network, and
television network, to provide integrated pest management(IPM)
information services for farmers in rural regions in E-mail,
telephone-voice, short message, voice mail, videoconference or other
format, to users' telephone, cell phone, personal computer, personal
digital assistant(PDA), television, etc. alternatively. The architecture
and the functions of the system were introduced in the paper. The system
can manage the field monitoring data of agricultural pests, deal with
enquiries to provide the necessary information to farmers accessing the
interactive voice response(IVR) in the system with the experts on-line
or off-line, and issue the early warnings about the fruit tree pests
when it is necessary according to analysis on the monitoring data about
the pests of fruit trees in variety of ways including SMS, fax, voice
and intersystem e-mail.The system provides a platform and a new pattern
for agricultural technology extension with a high coverage rate of
agricultural technology in rural regions, and it can solve the problem
of agriculture information service 'last kilometer' in China. The
effectiveness of the system was certified.
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