Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) and its incubator arm Indigram Labs Foundation(ILF), both Section 8, not for profit entities, have been deploying social media extensively for knowledge sharing, information exchange and networking. Nearly 700,000 agri-professionals ranging from start-ups, influencer farmers, Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), Scientists, researchers, employees of govt and private sector bodies are connected as a part of our social media groups/pages. Such platforms under the Indian Agriculture Professionals (IAP) umbrella enable sharing and learning among members. Our groups are evolving into crowd sourced digital extension platforms for the agriculture sector and are being run as public utilities.Key Digital channels which should be of great interest to all agriculture sector stakeholders are:
1.IAP Youtube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/IndianAgricultureProfessionals
Do visit and subscribe to this free channel which has a good number of income enhancement and entrepreneurship focused agriculture related videos on this channel.
2 IAP on Facebook has membership of more than 318,000 agriculture professionals. Information shared by members on this platform is curated by professionals and domain experts who are the admin’s and moderators on the platform. This way IAP is emerging as an reliable source of information for the farmers and other stakeholders in the agriculture sector.