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Indian Agricultural Data Warehouse Design

Indian Agricultural Data Warehouse Design
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Author(s): Anil Rai (Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, India), Sree Nilakanta (Iowa State University, USA)and Kevin Scheibe (Iowa State University, USA)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 4
Source title: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-929-8.ch123
ISBN13: 9781599049298
EISBN13: 9781466665378

Abstract

Data warehouse implementations at the sector levels, especially at the national agricultural level are non-existent. Designing an agricultural data warehouse poses unique and significant challenges because traditionally the collection and dissemination of information have been extremely parochial. Moreover, there has been very little adoption of information technology. Recently the Government of India has embarked on an ambitious project of designing and deploying a data warehouse for the agricultural sector with the intent of using the system for macro level planning decisions. The paper presents some of the design challenges the project has faced and solutions undertaken. It is hoped that the paper will help other such large scale, sector level warehouse designs learn from our experiences.

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