Assessment Task 2 (3) (3)

Assessment Task 2: Empirical and Comprehensive Study and Report

Due: Week 9, Sunday, <date>, 11:59pm

Submission: Via Turnitin portal on the Moodle page

Word length: 1200 words ± 10% (10 minutes)

Weight: 30% of final mark

Problem Statement

Real-time information sharing between farmers, field agents, procurement officers, and agriculture experts enables service providers to supply real-time and personalized services based on a wide range of factors such as location, crop, management practices, mechanization level, irrigation type, farm size, soil type, etc. This allows farmers to make informed choices and take swift agriculture actions when necessary.

An empirical study on existing mobile-based personalized services delivery platform that enables two-way data and information exchange between the end-users (farmers and field agents), repositories of knowledge (virtual knowledge banks and agriculture experts), and procurement officers is the need of the present world. So that such mobile-based personalized service platform or ICT enabled platform may be improved for better services in real-time.

Objectives

Student needs to analyze the existing mobile-based or ICT-enabled two-way service platform for its effectiveness by taking a case study of such service delivery platform into consideration (preferably from Australia). Upon successful analysis of the case study, student should be able to:

give a brief description of the platform in terms of its concept, technology framework, product(s), target market(s), location, and legal structure.
provide a brief comparative profit and loss statement analysis.
comment briefly on cost and timeliness, benefit impact of the innovations, implementation challenges, replicability, future potential, and scalability.

The structure of the report should be

Title page
Table of contents with page numbers
Executive summary
Introduction
Major points, responses, or arguments, set out as separate subsections which include the service platform in terms of its concept, technology framework, product(s), target market(s), location, legal structure, profit, and loss statement analysis, cost and timeliness, benefit impact of the innovations, implementation challenges, replicability, future potential, and scalability.
Discussion and recommendations (for the improvements in existing such platforms)
Conclusion
References
Appendices (if any)

Examples

Students can refer to the following mobile-based personalized services delivery platform available in Australia e.g.

Graincast, (https://www.csiro.au/en/research/plants/crops/Grains/Graincast)

Grazplan (https://grazplan.csiro.au/)

another good example which students can refer to is: The revolutionary PRIDE™ model by mKRISHI® – empowering farmers to live with dignity, available at:

http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6733e.pdf

http://agritech.tnau.ac.in/pdf/ICT%20sucess%20stories.pdf