Syllabus
Unit I
Theory
Introduction to Computers, Anatomy of computer, Operating Systems, definition and types, Applications of MS Office for document creation & Editing, Data presentation, interpretation and graph creation, statistical analysis, mathematical expressions,
Unit II
Database, concepts and types, uses of DBMS in Agriculture, World Wide Web (WWW): Concepts and components, Introduction to computer programming languages, concepts and standard input/output operations. e-Agriculture, concepts and applications,
Unit III
Use of ICT in Agriculture, Computer Models for understanding plant processes. IT application for computation of water and nutrient requirement of crops, Computer- controlled devices (automated systems) for Agri-input management, Smartphone Apps in Agriculture for farm advises, market price, postharvest management etc.,
Unit IV
Geospatial technology for generating valuable agri-information. Decision support systems, concepts, components and applications in Agriculture, Agriculture Expert System, Soil Information Systems etc. for supporting Farm decisions, Preparation of contingent crop-planning using IT tools
Aim of the course
This is a course on Introduction to Networking and Internet Applications that aims at exposing the students to understand analogy of computer, basic knowledge of MS Office. Also to understand Internet and WWW, use of IT application and different IT tools in Agriculture