Onion Crop Advisor is a technology aided digital onion knowledge management platform developed by ICAR-DOGR in collaboration with ESDS software solutions ltd intended to guide the farmers and other stakeholders through the decision support system made for key farm decisions like variety selection, disease-pest identification and management, crop nutrition and deficiency management etc. Also, it disseminates the technologies developed, crop advisories, weather updates, broadcasts, blogs and allied services to ensure quality crop production practices and the progress of farmers thereof.
It guides growers with
1) Decision of variety selection based on their location, season and other specific characters.
2) Decision of crop nutrition and deficiency management
3) Decision of pest and disease identification and its management practices
Also, it provides –
1) A complete crop production agropedia
2) Blogs
3) Social media linkages
And a gate way to the services offered like
1) Agri-Business incubation center
2) Custom Hiring center
3) Seed supply
4) Trainings
It is a one-step solution platform developed & designed for extension of scientific agriculture practices for Indian onion & garlic growers