Development of agricultural e-commerce framework for India, a strategic approach.

This study is aimed to put forward an inclusive and pertinent e-commerce framework that serves as a platform\ud for the development and improvement of rural agriculture sector in India; which plays a major role towards\ud socioeconomic development of rural livelihoods along with food security and poverty reduction. The main\ud approach used was to critically review and understand the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and the Ministry of\ud Agriculture policies. In general, these policies emphasize on promoting IT based information kiosks, establishing\ud gyan chaupals (Knowledge centers) in villages, construction of Agri-India knowledge portal. Next, the\ud challenges and information gaps were identified and translated in the form of agriculture e-commerce framework\ud which can be used to build an e-commerce application