Geographic Information System(GIS) : A tool for extension in Mauritius
| MSI01P3547 | |
| Chung Tze Cheong, M. Appave, R. Jamala, S. | |
| Geographic Information System(GIS) : A tool for extension in Mauritius | |
| Lalouette, J. A.; Bachraz, D. Y. (eds). Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of Agricultural Scientists, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius, 3-4 May 2001 | |
| book chapter | |
| 2003 | |
| p. 1-8 | |
| Réduit, Food and Agricultural Research Council (FARC) | |
| En | |
| En | |
| Geographic information systems is essentially a tool to help visualizing information in a spatial way. This paper illustrates how extension officers canmanage individual farmers' plots, in the large and often remote areas under their responsibility, can use it. This application product is a prototype developed, using Visual Basic, Map objects and map files generated from ARCIInfo. It has a set of menus and buttons with which officers may query the geographic database of the project area. In this instance, data files supplied by the Farmers Service Centre, responsible of farmers fields in St Felix factory area, have been integrated with the map files prepared by MSIRI into a geographic database. Monitoring of yield with respect the current practice may then be followed and handy documents produced for field visits. Observations from field visits may also be fed into the database so that information accessible to officers as well as decidion-makers could be updated. This pilot project is an example applicable to crops other than cane. As illustrated in this study, it allows a dynamic evolution of the system with almost 'real-time' feedback at field level. Specific extension goals set for the target farmers could then be grouped geographically viz, irrigation, ripener application and mechanization projects | |
| Geographic information systems Extension Decision making | |
| Mauritius | |
| Land Use and Management | |
| Geographical Information Systems | |
| 2001-04-27 | |
| En | |
| CHEM | |
| CAT | |
| CHEM |