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Strengthening Digital Agricultural Monitoring Capacities Using E-Agriculture - TCP/INS/3805

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 6

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) Indonesia is a major producer of agricultural products, although agriculture remains a highly labour-intensive sector and the cost of agricultural inputs is high. Strategies on e-agriculture have been developed in several countries to rationalize resources (financial, human, infrastructure, natural) and address national priorities holistically. Since 2005, Indonesia's Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), through its Centre for Agricultural Data and System Information (CADIS) and the Strategic Agricultural Command Centre (KOSTRA TANI), has been moving towards digitizing data. According to current records, the MoA has at least 700 online reporting systems for various needs and purposes. To streamline data management within this online environment, the MoA initiated the development of an agriculture war room (AWR). The MoA has identified several courses of action related to improving digital agriculture: (i) the development of a comprehensive strategy based on identified gaps and needs, building on existing frameworks and capacities to support the MoA in harnessing data and information resources to be able to achieve Indonesia’s agricultural vision; (ii) the further technical development of the e-agriculture data system, in support of the AWR, including an Early Warning System (EWS) platform; (iii) the development of national and provincial technical capacities on digital agriculture services/solutions.

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