Author(s):

Brajendra, AK Vishwakarma, KM Bujarbaruah and KA Pathak

Abstract: ‘Being connected’ has been central to the hierarchy of needs as perceived by the human beings since times immemorial. Even during the ancient time period the people used to be on move, in the quest of knowledge and information and their main means of getting connected with the intended target group used to be contacts and their visits. It is not surprising to find out that Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) of late has come to the rescue of all kinds of information seekers.Computer technology is playing a major role in agrotechnology transfer and land evaluation. The role of computer technology in database management, simulation, geographic information systems and decision systems has gained wide acceptance during the last decade (Jones et al. 1986). The rapid development of Information Technology (IT) has spread its network in all aspects of agriculture. In Soil Science integration of this technology has lead to a development of entirely new discipline called Soil Informatics- a fusion of soil science with that of computing.

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