Provide agricultural, medical, and educational information to villages at Facilitation Booths in their villages. Provide communication facilities at the booths to link villages to the Warana cooperative complex. Bring the world's knowledge at the doorstep of villagers through the Internet via the National Informatics Centre Network. Computers provide farmers with useful information about fertilizers and crop diseases. For centuries farmers here have cultivated sugar cane, and the cane fields dominate the countryside, feeding the sweet tooth of one billion Indians.
Farmers pride themselves on producing more sugar per acre than anywhere else in India.
With computers in all the villages, the farmers are linked to a central network. Suddenly, connectivity is changing a centuries-old way of life. Computers are not just decorative items. Earlier we used to go to the factory to check for the bill. Connectivity is changing a centuries-old way of life for villagers in western India Through the network, farmers get a daily weather report, learn what fertilizer to use, and access the sale price of several other crops, which helps them decide what to plant next.