اسمِ اعظم کے وہ اسرار کو پا لیتے ہیں
’’عشقِ سرکاؐر جو سینے میں بسا لیتے ہیں‘‘
نعمتِ عُظمیٰ کا فیضان انہیں ملتا ہے
جو درِ قدس پہ دامن کو بچھا لیتے ہیں
اُن کو آتے ہیں نظر نورِ ہدیٰ کے جلوے
خاک طیبہ کی جو آنکھوں میں لگا لیتے ہیں
ہر صحابیؓ کا یہ مسلک ہے کہ رودادِ الم
جنؐ کی سُنتا ہے خدا اُنؐ کو سُنا لیتے ہیں
روزنِ چشمِ تصوّر سے اُنہیںؐ دیکھتے ہیں
دوریوں میں یوں حضوری کا مزا لیتے ہیں
شوقِ طیبہ کا شجر سوکھنے کب دیتے ہیں
اشکِ ہجراں کا اِسے پانی لگا لیتے ہیں
اُن کی سانسوں میں بسی خلدِ بریں کی خوشبو
شہرِ طیبہ کی جو عرفانؔ ہوا لیتے ہیں
Spiritual/physical cleanliness/purification has always been man's concern and it is more so with religions. Concepts and procedures of the same have always been derived and framed according to the basic teachings of these religions. Islam and Hinduism, basically two different religions, have different theoretical assumptions about this issue. The study below critically examines these concepts as put forward by the two religions.
Context: E-agriculture is modern form of agriculture that integrates information and communication technology (ICT) into agricultural practices. The objective of e-agriculture is to fulfill increasing food demand with least input resources. E-agriculture achieves this goal by using the automated systems to control the field operations and provides necessary information to agriculturists efficiently. In literature, various information systems have been proposed, however such systems are expensive for small land farmers. Moreover, such systems are not easy to use and information presented is hard to be interpreted by farmers.
Pakistan is an agricultural country and agriculture contributes 21% to the GDP of Pakistan. Therefore, agricultural reforms are very important to provide timely information to farmers and provide them with tools that can help them in managing agricultural activities especially agricultural finance management.
Objectives: The aim of this research was to propose a web based information system by systematically analyzing the existing literature on e-agriculture and identifying the information and accounting issues of local farmers. The system could provide accurate, necessary and timely information to small land farmers and could support them in managing agricultural finance.
Method: To achieve research objectives a multi method research approach was adopted. In this approach, a combination of empirical research methods were used that complement each other. At first, a mapping study was conducted to investigate evidences available in the existing literature one-agriculture. Secondly, case study in District Pakpattan was conducted to identify the agricultural financial accounting and information issues of local farmers and to resolve these issues by developing a web based system. The system was evaluated by measuring users? satisfaction by customizing Delone and Mclean Information Success (IS) model. Hypotheses were developed and field survey was conducted in rural area of Punjab to collect data. The results were produced and hypotheses were tested by employing regression analysis.
Results: From this research, we identified that the research on e-agriculture was introduced in 2003. Various systems were proposed to support farmers in agricultural activities. It was identified that agricultural farms using these systems are getting more profit. However, interfaces of these systems were complex, their cost was high and requires technical expertise therefore adoption rate of these systems was low and they were beyond the reach of small land farmers.
The proposed application developed in this research was evaluated through field study. The results showed that famers were very satisfied with system and service quality provided in the proposed application, however information quality was not considered significant.
Conclusion: In developed countries automated systems are used to gain high yield, however, in developing countries e-agriculture is still at its initial stage. Farmers are semi-literate and have low digital literacy to use technology. To get full benefits of e-agriculture, there is need to introduce reforms and trainings to local farming community about the use of computer and hand held devices such as mobiles. Also, there is need to provide easy to use information systems with local language support. From this study, we concluded that easy to understand information system especially designed for semi-literate farmers with the support of native language are more likely to be accepted by the farmers? community.