Web / Individual Activity

• Open KARI Website, http://www.kari.org, and investigate. Then visit links of other organizations with which KARI has linkages.
• Open ILRI Website, http://www.ilri.org.  Investigate the ILRI website, open information concerning People, Livestock and the Environment, copy the information to Microsoft Word, and save on the computer’s desktop.

In this lesson you have been introduced to the importance of information seeking and retrieval in the agricultural setup through modern technologies. More and more data is collected from several sources and stored in a database to be accessed by farmers for their agricultural activities. Such information includes weather information, agricultural commodities prices, fertiliser, soil types and many other types of information. If the farmers are equipped with this knowledge, there is a greater possibility of success in agricultural activities.

• For successful farming activities to be carried out, farmers should know how to access crucial information. There is much agricultural information online stored and distributed through several agricultural organizations
• The lesson provides insights on how online (both internet and mobile devices) have revolutionized information seeking and retrieval. For example, Get-It 411, where farmers are able to access commodity exchange prices on agricultural products.