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Local needs are the future for IT innovations

http://www.ekgaon.com/scidev

The company Ekgaon has developed a mobile phone application that provides specialist advice to individual farmers in both voice and text forms, helping them enhance yields with information about when to plant seeds and which fertilisers to use

Farmers switch on to customised mobile info advisory services

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-agri-biz-and-commodity/article2636978.ece

“Farmers are willing, if the information is customised to their specific soil, crop and weather conditions, besides alerts on stuff such as how much water would be released by the local dam authorities and when it would to reach their respective fields,” he added.

As techies home in, innovations sweep India

http://newstonight.net/content/techies-home-innovations-sweep-india

Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, the CEO of Ekgaon is one of those myriad ambitious whiz kids India has produced in recent times.

When outsourcees become outsourcers

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/202969/when-outsourcees-become-outsourcers.html

Meet Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, the CEO of Ekgaon. His focus is Indian farmers, who make up half the population and constitute what he calls “an emerging market within an emerging market.

India's Young Techies Move From Outsourcing to Entrepreneurship

http://www.ekgaon.com/globalservicesmedia

Ekgaon built a software program that runs on the cheapest cellphones and offers illiterate farmers a voice or text advisory program.