Esagu

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'eSagu' is a web-based personalized agro-advisory system which uses Information Technology to solve unscientific agricultural practices. Sagu means cultivation in the Telugu-local language of Telangana^[1] Andhra Pradesh, the region in which the project started. E-Sagu means electronic cultivation. 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 crop productivity.

It is a joint research project of Media lab asia[1] and IIIT Hyderabad

• 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 the 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.

• eSagu Home Page
• Media lab asia
• Chief Coordinator
• Nihilent Technologies [2]