SRS-Central Agricultural Portal - Agritech Portal

494 Pages·2012·11.91 MB·English

by  Agricultural Informatics Division

Draft
2012
Department of Agriculture & Cooperation

Ministry of Agriculture
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Background ............................................................................................................... 6
1.2 Purpose of the document ........................................................................................... 7
1.3 Scope ......................................................................................................................... 7
1.4 Existing System ......................................................................................................... 7
1.5 Objectives of Central Agricultural Portal.................................................................. 9
1.6 Salient Features of the Central Agricultural Portal ................................................. 10
1.7 Definitions and Abbreviations ................................................................................ 12
1.8 References ............................................................................................................... 19
1.9 Overview Structure of the Document...................................................................... 20
2 Central Agricultural Portal – Overall Description .......................................................... 24
2.1 Central Agricultural Portal – Product Perspective .................................................. 24
2.2 User Characteristic .................................................................................................. 26
2.3 Constraints ............................................................................................................... 27
2.4 Assumptions and Dependencies .............................................................................. 27
2.5 Central Agricultural Portal – Product Functions ..................................................... 28
3 Central Agricultural portal – Specific Requirements ..................................................... 54
3.1 Home Page Links .................................................................................................... 55
3.2 User Interfaces for services ..................................................................................... 64
4 Content Management System – a framework ................................................................. 85
4.1 Content Management System - System Architecture ............................................. 85
4.2 Content Management – Major components ............................................................ 86
4.3 Content Management System – Features and Capabilities ..................................... 89
4.4 Content Management System – Functionality ........................................................ 91
4.5 Content Contribution Sources ................................................................................. 97
4.6 Content Categories ................................................................................................ 102
4.7 Content Life Cycle ................................................................................................ 104
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4.8 Content Validity .................................................................................................... 105
4.9 Content Management - Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) ................ 105
4.10 Content Management – Use Cases ........................................................................ 111
4.11 Content Management – Use Case Diagram .......................................................... 114
4.12 Content sharing workflow between CAP and SAPs ............................................. 115
4.13 Accessing Portal Content for viewing and uploading ........................................... 115
4.14 Content Management System - User Interfaces .................................................... 116
5 User Management - Identity and Access Management ................................................ 119
5.1 Identity and Access Management - Description ................................................... 119
5.2 Identity and Access Management – Framework ................................................... 120
5.3 User Management (UM) – External users............................................................. 132
6 Grievances Redressal and Management System (GRMS) ........................................... 168
6.1 Existing System for Grievance Redressal and Management ................................ 169
6.2 Comparative Study of features .............................................................................. 177
6.3 Scope of Grievance Redressal Management System ............................................ 178
6.4 Service wise list of possible Grievances ............................................................... 178
6.5 Proposed Solution ................................................................................................. 180
7 Expert Advisory System ............................................................................................... 236
7.1 Farm advisory services needed by Crop, Livestock and Fisheries farmers .......... 236
7.2 Existing Systems ................................................................................................... 243
7.3 Proposed System ................................................................................................... 244
8 National Farmer’s Database ......................................................................................... 283
8.1 Minimum Required data elements (HCF) ............................................................. 283
8.2 Sum Total of Required data elements (LCM) for 3600 view ................................ 284
8.3 Integration with the databases ............................................................................... 288
8.4 Standards to be used .............................................................................................. 288
8.5 Entity Relationship Diagrams ............................................................................... 288
8.6 User Interfaces for National Farmers’ Database ................................................... 291
9 Common Functional Requirements and Use Cases ...................................................... 295
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9.1 Common Functional Requirements ....................................................................... 295
9.2 Common Use Cases .............................................................................................. 299
10 Design Constraints ........................................................................................................ 315
10.1 Design Objectives ................................................................................................. 315
10.2 Design Considerations........................................................................................... 316
10.3 Standards ............................................................................................................... 318
11 Performance Requirements........................................................................................... 318
11.1 Guidelines for realizing performance .................................................................... 319
12 Portal Functionality Requirements ............................................................................... 319
13 Software Systems Attributes ........................................................................................ 320
13.1 High Availability ................................................................................................... 320
13.2 Scalability .............................................................................................................. 323
13.3 Interoperability ...................................................................................................... 325
13.4 Reliability .............................................................................................................. 326
13.5 Usability ................................................................................................................ 327
13.6 Portability .............................................................................................................. 328
13.7 Extensibility .......................................................................................................... 328
13.8 Maintainability ...................................................................................................... 329
13.9 Accessibility .......................................................................................................... 331
13.10 Multi-lingual Support ............................................................................................ 334
13.11 Security.................................................................................................................. 336
13.12 Access Points and Access Devices........................................................................ 343
14 Standard Architectural Components ............................................................................. 344
15 Logical Database Requirements ................................................................................... 345
16 Digitization Requirements ............................................................................................ 345
16.1 File Formats for digitisation .................................................................................. 346
16.2 Delivery Formats ................................................................................................... 348
17 Other Requirements ...................................................................................................... 351
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17.1 Visibility of the Central Agricultural Portal .......................................................... 351
17.2 Web Services Requirement ................................................................................... 351
Annexure - A........................................................................................................................ 357
Major Websites in Agricultural and allied Sectors .............................................................. 357
Annexure – B ....................................................................................................................... 414
Context Diagram .................................................................................................................. 414
Annexure - C ........................................................................................................................ 420
Data Dictionary .................................................................................................................... 420
Annexure - D........................................................................................................................ 474
Ministry of Agriculture – Organisation Structure ................................................................ 474
Annexure - E ........................................................................................................................ 484
W3C Guidelines for Accessibility ....................................................................................... 484

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1 Introduction
1.1 Background
The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (DAC), Ministry of Agriculture is implementing
National e-Governance Programme (NeGP) in the Agricultural Sector as a Mission Mode Project
(A-MMP), covering Agriculture Sector, Livestock Sector and Fisheries Sector. (Organisation
Structure of Ministry as given in Annexure – E). The NeGP-AMMP aims to address the needs of
the farming community and its other related stakeholders, through provision of relevant
information and services through the various delivery channels available in their vicinity for
assisting them in making rational decision for raising farm productivity and farm income.
In first Phase project will be implemented in 7 pilot states. These are Assam, Himachal Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala and Karnataka. The project will be rolled out
in other states after successful implementation in first phase.
12 Cluster of Services identified under this project, will cover information on Pesticides,
Fertilizers and Seeds, Soil Health, crops, farm machinery, training and Good Agricultural
Practices (GAPs), forecasted weather and agro-met advisory, prices, arrivals, procurement
points, and providing interaction platform, Electronic certification for exports & imports,
marketing infrastructure, Monitoring implementation / Evaluation of schemes & programs,
fisheries, irrigation infrastructure, Drought Relief and Management, Livestock Management.
NIC has been given the responsibility of Software design, development, deployment and training
under this project. Software component includes design and development of (i) Central
Agricultural Portal (CAP), (ii) 7 States Agricultural Portals (SAPs) (iii) 12 clusters of
information services.
Central Agricultural Portal is at the centre stage of the project as it will provide platform for
all stakeholders (farmers, private sector and the Government, research scholars) to access
information, avail services, collaborate and share knowledge.
It would play a critical role in providing single access point to government information and
services related to agricultural sector, eliminating the need to navigate multiple web sites and
applications. The CAP would allow to present information, applications and services in a single
consolidated browser view. It would provide a secure and individualized view of multiple online
resources and interactive services. In this sense, the CAP would become an interface between the
government and other stakeholders.
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1.2 Purpose of the document
This document describes the Software Requirements Specification for the Central Agricultural
Portal (CAP). The Purpose of this document is to provide guidelines for the development of the
Central Agricultural Portal.
1.3 Scope
The Scope of this SRS document is to define the functional requirements for Central Agricultural
Portal and its component like User management, Content management, Expert Advisory System,
Grievances Redressal and Management System, National Farmers’ database, etc. It also defines
user interfaces, user characteristics, sitemap, navigation etc. for the portal.
It also covers the non-functional requirements like performance, reliability, availability, security,
maintainability etc.
1.4 Existing System
With emergence of new and cost effective solutions in Information and Communications
Technology field, traditional methods for information access and service delivery are either
becoming obsolete or it has become necessary to augment these methods with the new ICT tools.
As the ICT is spreading its wings at the grassroots level, more and more population is becoming
aware of the benefits of ICT. Their expectations about the service delivery from Government are
increasing. They expect sophistication, timeliness and easy accessibility (anytime, anywhere) in
service delivery. Agricultural Sector is one of the most important sectors in India as it contributes
16% GDP and provides employment to 52% of the Indian population. Timely access to
information and service delivery is critical and of utmost important in this sector in view of time
bound farm activities involved in all stages of the crop cycle.
To fulfill the expectations of the farm sector for provision of timely access of information and
services, many e-Governance initiatives have been started in past few years, by Government as
well as by Public and Private sectors. Under these initiatives, large number websites providing
information and services in agricultural sector have been launched. Ministry of Agriculture itself
has number of websites for different divisions, directorates and projects. There have been many
websites and portals published by Central Government Departments (Agriculture, Irrigation,
Fertilisers, Cooperation, ICAR, DADF, Planning Commission, Commerce, Agencies , Public
Sector Banks, NABARD, etc), State Government Departments (Sub-sectors), State level
Agencies, Commodity wise portals, NGOs, CMIE, etc.
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The partial list of these have been provided in the Annexure-A. However these websites do not
share web services among them and hence contents are static, non-consistent, non-integrity etc.
Many times farmer and other stakeholders in the agricultural sector have to visit multiple
websites to trace the desired piece of information or to avail a single service. Different websites
have different look and feel, presentation style, structure, and color schema as these follow
different technology standards, design lay-outs and navigation architecture etc. It results in lot of
inconvenience to the user and requires a lot of learning on their part to access the information
and services. On the other hand it is challenging job for the owners of these websites also to keep
all the information updated and in sync at multiple websites all the time. This results in duplicate
efforts, outdated content, multiple sources of information, mismatch of the information finally
confusing the service consumer. Following problems are being faced by information and service
providers in agricultural sector-
1. Vast content and content types
2. Large geographical area, different types of cultural and socio-economic conditions of the
farmers and other stakeholders, hence varied requirements of types of information and
services
3. Lack of standardized processes at State level
4. No clarity on roles and responsibilities
5. No IT enablement of background processes
6. Non availability of means for making content timely available
7. Lack of resources in generating content in digitized formats in English and local
languages
8. Content mainly stored as manual record
9. Lack of standardized formats at the state level
10. Lack of adequate dissemination channel / training programs
a. Lack of trained manpower
b. Large number of villages
11. Lack of decoupling between the services from the core administration barring the service
delivery mechanisms to incorporate changes without triggering changes in core processes
and the Centre / State / District Agriculture Department and Attached offices.
12. Lack of one comprehensive data repository resulting in:
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a. Duplication of effort
b. Redundancy in the processes
c. No / difficult access to inter-departmental data
d. More requirements for verifications
To make all the Agricultural information and services accessible in easy and convenient manner,
a need has been felt to establish a one-stop source for all government information and services in
Agricultural Sector. It will save farmers and other stakeholders from the hassles of searching the
desired information across a large number of websites, with diverse design and navigation
patterns.
Providing relevant information and services to all stakeholders in this sector especially to the
farming communities is the major objective of the NeGP- Agriculture Mission Mode Project.
Central Agricultural Portal will be the main gateway to provide these services.
1.5 Objectives of Central Agricultural Portal
The major objectives of Central Agricultural Portal are –
To provide one stop, single window solution to all stakeholders especially farmers for
accessing information and services in agricultural sector eliminating the need to
remember multiple URL and to navigate multiple web sites and applications
To provide localized and personalized services for agricultural related information.
To act as a gateway for delivery of information and services in Agricultural sector
which will be accessed using various delivery channels
To deliver agricultural related government services in integrated fashion
To complement and enhance service delivery channels which may already exist at the
central government level
To build a comprehensive Knowledge Management system for Indian Agriculture by
providing platform to collaborate and share knowledge
To act as bridge between farmers and the Government bodies at the highest decision
making level by streamlining and simplifying their interactions with Government entities
reducing service cycle time and providing enriching experience
To provide mechanism for grievance redressal and management in agricultural sector
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To provide Expert Advisory services to the farmers during each stage of the entire crop
cycle while on the other hand to provide the platform for the domain experts to receive
and address specific queries of the farmers
To build National Farmers’ database to understand the information requirements of the
farmers and to provide relevant services through various delivery channels.
To provide secure, anytime, anywhere, single window delivery of government services
to agri-business industry comprising of dealers, wholesalers, retailers of the agricultural
inputs and exporters, importers, traders of the agricultural products. To streamline and
simplify their interactions with Government entities reducing service cycle time and
providing enriching experience
To minimize gaps between Service providers(Government entities) and service
consumers (farmers, Agri-businesses)
To provide consistent and uniform experience to users in terms of presentation,
standards, design, layouts, navigation architecture
To built platform for Government departments to present information, applications
and services in a single consolidated browser view
To provide a secure and individualized view of multiple online resources and interactive
services
To house the applications suggested for use at the Central levels
To support four forms of interactions G2F, G2C, G2B, G2G
1.6 Salient Features of the Central Agricultural Portal
The focus of the CAP is farmer and as most farmers are not experienced Internet users, to find
the relevant information and services on portal should be easy for them. As such, the following is
a list of proposed features for the CAP:
Single window access of Information and services in Agricultural Sector in India for
farmers and other stakeholders
Use of icons/pictures/ images and graphical interfaces to represent links and
information for quicker understanding of the farmers.
Alternate lighter Home page and alternate text display for icons/pictures/images for
faster access depending upon connectivity speed.
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