International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in collaboration with Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), is facilitating an interactive internet-based knowledge management portal called "Advancing Agricultural Practice". This portal aims to facilitate knowledge and experience-sharing among the various agri-stakeholders including men and women farmers, extension agents, agricultural scientists, agro-industries, agri-financing institutions, policy makers and planners in Indian agriculture.

• This portal is built and maintained by Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd.,

• The information available is static for majority of the fields.

• The portal provides e-learning in collaboration with XLRI.

• User interface portal providing knowledge models for Rice, wheat, Chickpea, Litchi, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, sugarcane and vegetable pea.

• It facilitates the user to contribute either as blog, agroforum issues, agropedia and library posts.

• The Rice knowledge model provided on the portal is too clumsy much to the disgust of general netizen to spend time on the portal.

• The crop information section is currently removed from the link server with emphasis only on commodity futures trading tips and intraday calls with news coverage restricted to such crops i.e. rice not currently traded on Indian commex’s, no information is made available nowadays.

• Portal dedicated for dissemination of market information on important field crops of India.

• A premier portal providing info on rice export allocation certificate and news on global trade front for interested trade parties.

• A generic portal providing insights into Indian Agriculture, policy governing agriculture and trade directory.

• Provides yellow pages of Indian exporters.

• Dedicated portal for providing information of Basmati rice cultivated at the foothills of Himalayas.

• Portal managed for basmati exports from India

• A static interface portal created by ITC under its rural initiative “e- choupal”.

• The data/ information depicted are back dated to the time of portal creation.

• This portal belongs to Crops Research Institute (CRI), one of the 13 institutes of CSIR.

• The information depicted is static and with outdated information.

• This portal is under up-gradation for many sub-links.

• The dissemination of information is focused to the demography of the institute location.

• This portal is exclusively dedicated to genome sequencing and gene structure annotation.

• This website on rice journal has been suspended from Sep 01, 2004 after being in service to the scientific world since 1897.

• A Japanese portal for tracking publications on Rice research viz., manuscript tracking, peer review etc.,

• This portal is the first literature based scientific social network that brings and allows researchers to collaborate online.

• This social network website is free of charge to researchers worldwide to increase collaborative bio-medical research for the common good.

• Since April 2008, 290559 life science researchers joined this website with 1.8 million researchers connecting together for collaborative research spread across 3500 institutions and 19

• This portal provides information pertaining to global bio-diversity by species, by country with their classification and scientific names.

• The portal belongs to University of Arkansas, Department of Agriculture, Cooperative extension service.

• The information and content available on the portal provides insights and training of farmers in the state of Arkansas on issues pertaining to rice production, protection, water use and environmental issues governing rice cultivation.

• The website also equips its target audience by providing support on marketing i

• This website is provided as an archive of the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Rice Production (Rice CRC) activities and will be maintained until July 2010.