Posted 05-08-2008 at 04:22 PM by narendra
Ajit Singh, a farmer in the poor northern state of Uttar Pradesh, had never seen a computer until four years ago when ITC, the Indian agribusiness-to-hotels conglomerate, installed a PC in his village, Kurthia.
Now the thin 47-year-old farmer visits the ITC station, known as an "e-choupal" after the Hindi term for "gathering place", every day for online access to news*papers, crop prices, weather forecasts and farming techniques. As ITC's village manager, he passes on what he gleans...
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