Esagu

'eSagu' is a web-based personalized agro-advisory system which uses Information Technology to solve the unscientific agricultural practices. Sagu means cultivation in Telugu-local language of [Andhra_Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh] , the region in which the project started.

It exploits the advances in Information Technology to build a cost-effective agricultural information dissemination system to disseminate expert agriculture knowledge to the farming community to improve the crop productivity.

It is a joint research project of Media lab asia [http://www.medialabasia.in] and IIIT Hyderabad

Recognition

* eSagu was declared the best e-governance project at the Computer Society of India (CSI) and Nihilent e-Governance Awards for 2005-06 ( [Nihilent e-Governance Awards http://www.csinihilent-egovernanceawards.org] )
* eSagu features as a select entry among worldwide latest novel Internet applications in the book "Innovative Application Case study 2006" published by Institute for Information Industry, a not-for-profit Think Tank for Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taipei.
* eSagu was listed as one of the top three e-Governance projects (the other two are BHOOMI and SAMPARK) of India in the video film on “Next e Governance Plan”, November 2005.

External links

* [http://www.esagu.in eSagu Home Page]
* [http://www.medialabasia.in Media lab asia]
* [http://iiit.net/~pkreddy/ Chief Coordinator]
* Nihilent Technologies [http://www.nihilent.com]