Agricultural Informatics & ICT: The Foundation, Issues, Challenges and Possible Solutions—A Policy Work

Informatics is an interdisciplinary and valuable field of study dedicated in various information related tasks viz. collecting, selecting, organizing, processing, managing as well as disseminating of contents and information using appropriate technologies. The application and merging of Informatics with other domains and fields have been development some of the other domains and fields like Bio Informatics, Health Informatics, Geo Informatics, Agricultural Informatics, and so on. Further, Agricultural Informatics or Agro ICT is the merger of ‘Agricultural Science’ and ‘Informatics/Information Science’. Agricultural Informatics is dedicated to designing, developing and modernizing Agricultural systems and practices with the help of ICT. Various technologies have already being used in agricultural activities such as basic computing tools, and also other IT components viz. Software Technologies, Network Technologies, Multimedia Technologies, Web Technologies, Database Technologies in recent past, and many other emerging technologies also employing in better and healthy Agricultural Practice. Furthermore, in the current context, many countries have initiated ICT in Agricultural Systems and there are progressive scenarios. Though some of the issues and challenges are also being treated as an obstacle in certain contexts and this work is about the Agricultural Informatics with reference to the importance and finding the issues, challenges of ICT in Agricultural Systems with proper solutions in Agricultural Systems.