Online system for Integrated Pest Management on tomato in AGRIdaksh

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a traditional and systematic way that brings together different pest control strategies and is becoming popular alternative to chemical pesticides, which in turn reduces the hazardous effect of chemical pesticides on agro ecosystem. Information about IPM practices are available mainly in the form of books, journals, magazines, brochures etc. These mediums are not interactive and have a limited reach. There is a need to put all these information in electronic form and deliver it to the user in attractive and faster way. AGRIdaksha tool developed at IASRI for development of expert systemis used as a medium to disseminate the information of IPM practices for different crops. Tomato is an important vegetable crop in India. One of the major challenges in tomato growing is crop protection against pests and diseases. A module for IPM has been built in AGRIdaksh for dissemination of IPM practices. This module has been developed using standard 3 tier architecture with business logic implemented in Java Server Pages (JSP) and database is implemented in SQL Server 2008.Mainly two types of users (Domain expert and End users) are envisagedin the system. Domain expert can enter the information about disease, pest, variety, IPM practices etc. online. System provides information about diseases, pests and IPM practices and recommendation to End users (Extension workers and Farmers).