Towards using ICT to Enhance Flow of Information to aid Farmer Sustainability in Sri Lanka
Journal: Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Year: 2012

Farmers need information at all stages of the farming life cycle to make optimal decisions. The required information includes not only prior knowledge but also real time (dynamic) information such as market prices and current production levels. Some valuable information needed by the farmers is produced by government organizations and is available in different locations in different formats. Although farmer is the most important stakeholder in agriculture, there has not been much effort to provi