August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
23h 35m
English
Indiagriline is an effort to provide an end-to-end solution addressing the needs of the farming community in South India. EID Parry Ltd., a private corporation owned by the Murugappa Group, launched this project in early 2001 by setting up Internet kiosks in 16 villages around its sugar factory in Nellikuppam, Tamil Nadu. These kiosks were called Parry’s Corners, named after a famous landmark in Chennai. Much like the Parry’s Corner of Chennai, the kiosks were intended to be business hubs of their respective villages—a one-stop shop that acted as a storefront for buying farm inputs, a market for selling goods, and an Internet café for communication and information services.
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