Agricultural video portal as the tools for dissemination, extension and share agricultural technology

Abstract

Technology in the field of Telecommunications and Informatics (Telematics) which rapidly advanced helps us to satisfy our thirst for information that is needed in a short time. At this time, the information is not enough just through text and graphics. Now the completeness of the information includes text, graphics, animation, images and audio video. An audio video, images, text, graphics and animation has been applied in various fields, such as for education, and it is used as a sophisticated tutorial tools. The media that support this is the internet. One of the concepts that become the trend today is to publish and distribute information via video through the Internet. This technology is known as a video portal. Video portal is currently widely used for the ease of distributing informations; by using video information dissemination can be made more professional. In agriculture, video can be used as a tutorial on how to cultivate something. Through video, agricultural technology is more easily understood visually. With the Internet, video can be distributed to the public without media restrictions. In addition to the large capacity storage server, library of agriculture multimedia or portal which can be accessed twenty four hours by the public through the Internet can be made. Videos contained on this portal can be accessed by public as needed, both in term of duration resolution and media access (computer or mobile desktop). For easy access, some videos can be made with a variety of resolutions, like 480x360 (standard) or 640x360 (for widescreen). Public are expected to be a contributor to further enrich the existing content and as a material sharing between communities. Finally this multimedia portal can become part of the Ministry of Agriculture Portal in order to disseminate agricultural technology. Development of a multimedia portal that specializes in the field of agricultural extension will make it easier for users to learn because the explanations given not only the form of text but also through the visual. Agriculture extension can be done continuously and there is ease in sharing information.