Agro-informatics is the application in agriculture with innovative ideas, techniques and scientific knowledge to expand the horizons of the computer science. The book explores how ICT in Agriculture is gaining momentum throughout the World. There is a huge demand for Agricultural Graduates with ICTs skills and profound Informatics, Knowledge, to leverage a mix of emerging and existing technologies for effective and inexpensive ICT penetration in agricultural development, and to be the global leader enabler in innovating solutions for productivity increase and prosperity, through Informatics for agricultural development. It requires about 100000 “agricultural graduates-ready” through agricultural informatics, for undertaking S&T based agricultural development, and rejuvenating and ushering in agricultural dynamism in the country, by 2025. Precision farming is an integration of several technologies. India and foreign governments originally paid for the development and support of technologies such as GPS, Remote Sensing, and GIS, for military or other civilian purposes long before the emergence of precision farming. Agriculture Census forms part of a broader system of collection of Agricultural Statistics. It is a large-scale statistical operation for the collection and derivation of quantitative information about the structure of agriculture in the country. The book contains the details about the information technology applied to management and analysis of agricultural data.

Ms. Mamta Rana currently working as a Senior Research Fellow and also pursuing Ph.D., Agromet Advisory Services, Meteorological Department, Lodi Road, New Delhi, India. She has completed bachelors in geography from Miranda House, Delhi University after that pursued masters in environmental studies from School of Environmental Studies, Delhi University. She got M.Tech. degree in Geoinformatics from Guru Jhambeshwar University, Hisar. She got various opportunities to work with various esteemed organizations. Ms. Rana visited University of Leuven, Belgium for short period for adding on to her research experience regarding agro-informatics and remote sensing & GIS to be used for application of simulation modeling and technology in the large benefit of Agricultural Scientists and farmers. She has been a life member of many professional societies such as Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Indian Meteorological Society, Indian Association of Agrometeorologists. Dr. D. Prasad (b. on 20-1-1948) retired as Prof. and Head, I.A.R.I., has more that 40 years of research and teaching experience in the field of plant protection in general. He has published more than 146 research papers, 100 abstracts presented in symposia of national and international repute and 121 chapters in various books. Dr. Prasad is known for his research contributions in nematode management on groundnut and soybean and developed IPM nodule for root knot nematode on groundnut. He also worked on environmentally safe pesticides, developed and tested two new molecules and hence sent to ICAR for Patening, and received HARDF Award for 1994, fellow of Several Societies won many prestigious award of Societies and Agril. Universities. Dr. Prasad has written/edited books namely Environment Pollution - Air, Water, Land, Radiation, Solid Waste, Thermal, Soil Environment & Pesticides, Potential IPM Tactics, Ecofriendly Pest Suppression, Crop Pest and Disease Management, Advances in Plant Protection Sciences, Crop Protection: Management Strategies, Sustainable Pests Management, Insect Pest and Disease Management, Sustainable Crop Protection Strategies (2 volumes) and Crop Protection, Conservation and Diversity (2 volumes) during the past few years. He founded a Society of Plant Protection Sciences in 1992 which publishes half-yearly Journal "Annals of Plant Protection Sciences".