Data-Mining Opportunities in E-Government: Agriculture Sector of Afghanistan

Information technology plays a significant role and has many opportunities in almost all sectors of government such as health, education, commerce, agriculture, and planning. Many systems and databases are operational to provide services to citizens in the above-mentioned sectors, therefore governments deal with an enormous amount of data, to ensure that such data are effectively utilized to facilitate decision making and planning at government level. Data-mining techniques is an emerging research field in e-government, particularly in agriculture. In this paper, our focus is on what opportunities data mining provide for e-government in Afghanistan. Moreover, this study gives some use-cases of data mining techniques for improving agriculture sector in Afghanistan.