This document discusses the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in agricultural knowledge management in India. It outlines key concepts like knowledge creation and sharing processes. It also describes several ICT tools and projects that aim to improve knowledge transfer to farmers, such as web portals, mobile services, and information kiosks. The advantages of ICT for agriculture are increased access to information, knowledge sharing networks, and more efficient dissemination of best practices. However, challenges also exist like lack of infrastructure, trained staff, and digital literacy in rural areas. Overall, effective knowledge management is important for improving agricultural productivity and ICT can help deliver and share critical information with farmers.

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Seminar Topic
Information Communication Technology in
Agricultural Knowledge Management
Submitted By
Krishna Vala
(06-0196-2015)
Guided By
Dr. J. V. Suthar
Assistant Professor
College of Agricultural Information Technology
ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
ANAND

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Contents
1. INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................... 3
2. What is Knowledge?.............................................................................................................................. 3
2.1 Knowledge:....................................................................................................................................... 3
2.2 Types of knowledge:......................................................................................................................... 3
3. Agricultural knowledge management process: .............................................................................4
3.1 Key of AKM Process:.................................................................................................................. 4
3.2 Agricultural Knowledge Management Process ................................................................................5
3.3 The Role of IT in AKM: ..................................................................................................................... 5
4. Role of ICT in agricultural knowledge management.....................................................................6
4.1 ICTs have four broad functions : ..................................................................................................... 6
4.2 ICT tools use in agricultural knowledge management......................................................................7
5. Project for ICT Development In Agricultural....................................................................................8
5.1 Web Portal: ..................................................................................................................................... 8
5.1.1 Agropedia:.................................................................................................................................. 8
5.1.2 Aim of Agropedia: ...................................................................................................................... 9
5.1.3 Services provided by agropedia to farmer:................................................................................9
5.2 ICT & Knowledge workers/intermediates................................................................................10
5.2.1 E-Sagu:..................................................................................................................................... 10
5.2.2 Aim of E-Sagu : ..................................................................................................................... 10
5.2.3 How does it work? .................................................................................................................10
5.3 Mobile Technology:..................................................................................................................... 11
5.3.1 Kissan call:............................................................................................................................... 11
5.3.2 Aim of Kissan call center:........................................................................................................11
5.3.3 How does it work? ...................................................................................................................11
6. The advantages of ICT in AKM :....................................................................................................11
7. ICT have challenges in Indian agriculture:..................................................................................12
8. Conclusion: .......................................................................................................................................... 12
9. References........................................................................................................................................... 13

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1. INTRODUCTION
Agriculture is an important sector of Indian economy. Statistics proves that almost 60–70%
of more than a billion people depend on agriculture and related fields in India. Agricultural
Knowledge Management (AKM) refers to the process of creating, improving, sharing and
transfer and the agricultural knowledge in the rural communities.
An ICT mediated as agricultural knowledge management platform for Indian
agriculture.ICT as a major driver of AKM. In addition ICTs provided new opportunities to the
challenges faced by agriculture.ICT allows capitalizing to a larger scope on the wealth of
information and knowledge available for Agriculture Knowledge, Science and Technology
(AKST).ICT in the in knowledge management that could play important role to sharing,
exchanging and disseminating knowledge and technologies.
2. What is Knowledge?
2.1 Knowledge:
A collection of data is information and a collection of information is not knowledge. But It’s
related description, definition or perspective is “knowledge”. A collection of knowledge is
wisdom and collection of wisdom is truth.
• Data = collection of facts, measurements, statistics
• Information = organized and processing data
• Knowledge = contextual, significant, actionable information
2.2 Types of knowledge:
1. Tacit knowledge: That can be difficult to share and transmit. It can be defined as skills, ideas and
experiences that people have in their minds.
 Example: How to use GIS & IT technology in farming. Are difficult to understand for farmer.
2. Explicit knowledge: That can be easy to share or transmit. Most forms of explicit knowledge
can be stored in certain media like encyclopedias and textbooks are good examples of explicit
knowledge.
 Example: What is Family, Botanical name and Variety of crop? Are easily understood
by farmer. Because these are also store in textbook.

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3. Agricultural knowledge management process:
3.1 Key of AKM Process:
• Knowledge creation, identification and capturing
• Knowledge organizing
• Knowledge storing
• Knowledge sharing and applying
Fig 1: Agricultural Knowledge Management

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3.2 Agricultural Knowledge Management Process
1. Knowledge acquiring: Knowledge capture and retained for prepare treatment like
video,auideo,picture related to agriculture for farmer.
2 .Knowledge creating: Knowledge creating though research,learning,innovation in
agriculture.
3. Knowledge organizing: Knowledge is processed and transformed which is adapted by
all marginal and small scale farmer.
4. Store: Preserved and retrieval to farmer commodities.
5. Sharing: Disseminating through presentation, publication, training, video conference,
network for aware to farmer.
6. Applying: Applying knowledge it is become basis for innovation of modern agriculture
3.3 The Role of IT in AKM:
 Information technology manage the knowledge, by itself is not manage.
 IT as a facilitator of AKM: facilitates to document management, data storage, access of
information, the dissemination, exchange and sharing of ideas related to agricultural IT
provides solutions to AKM.
 IT is a tool to increase the “efficiency” and “capability” of AKM
IT use in following processes in AKM:
Knowledge store and retrieval: Examples of supporting information technologies are
electronic bulletin boards also known as message boards or as computer medium where
one can share online communication systems where store and retrieval databases ect.
Knowledge transfer: Examples of supporting information technologies are more
available communication channels, enable user interactions by assisting them to
communicate with one another .The computer technology used as e-mails, discussion
lists, electronic bulletin boards and multimedia conferences. which enable more extensive
internal networks and faster access to knowledge sources.

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4. Role of ICT in agricultural knowledge management
Information and Communication Technology in Agriculture also called E-agriculture.
Which play vital role in agricultural knowledge management.
4.1 ICTs have four broad functions :
1. To deliver or provide access to information
2. To classify the knowledge base.
3. To connect people and network
4. To authorize rural communities
Figure 2: Agricultural Knowledge and Information management

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4.2 ICT tools use in agricultural knowledge management:
1. VKC-village knowledge centre.
The VKC program aim is the Agricultural Information
and technology to aware the poor and rural level farmer.
• Group meeting.
• Expert guidance
VK Center
2. Radio:
Establish All India Radio stations (EARS) located in various part of country.
Broadcast agricultural programs in regional language through wave medium.
3. Television:
India was first country among developing country to test use of the television for
agricultural extension in rural aria 1975-1976. At present television and radio stands most
utilized medium among the various ICT tools.
4. ICT-Kiosk: ICT-Kiosk
These kiosks provide a current information
and knowledge about agriculture to farmer.
• Computer terminal
• Video conferencing
• Voice call
5. Mobile:
• Kissan call center
• SMS
• AgroSIM Internet
6. Internet:
• Instant messaging
• Email
• File transfers
• Chart room

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5. Project for ICT Development In Agricultural
5.1 Web Portal:
5.1.1 Agropedia:
 The agropedia project was launched on 12 January 2009 by Government of India
through the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). It implemented by
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) with
funding support from the NAIP(National Agricultural Innovation Project).
 Agropedia designed as an "agricultural --Wikipedia" hosts wide range of agricultural
information.
Name of the
project
Type of
Organization
Type of
Knowledge
Contribute
by
1. Web Portals:
Agropedia,
AgriTech,
Public Explicit
KVKs , State
Agricultural
Universities,
Research Institutes
iKisan Private Explicit Subject Experts
2. ICT & Intermediaters / Knowledge Workers :
e-Sagu,
e-Arik
Public Explicit
Mostly Q & A
Subject Experts
e-Choupal,
Tata Kisan
Sansar
Private
Explicit Subject Experts
Digital Green NGO Tacit Farmers
VKC, MSSRF NGO Explicit Subject Experts
3. Mobile technology/telephone
Kisan call Public Explicit Subject Experts

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Figure 3: Agropedia Working
5.1.2 Aim of Agropedia:
 The agricultural knowledge is spread in multiple languages such as English, Hindi and
Teleg..
 To prepare a bridge between explicit knowledge holders like agricultural researchers,
scientists, experts and tacit knowledge holders like farmers and other field workers.
 To provides online, up-to day detailed and any questioners of farmer.
5.1.3 Services provided by agropedia to farmer:
 vKVK-Virtual Krishi Vigyan Kendra: Transmission of relevant information to farmers
on their mobile phones using text and voice message facilities in regional language
 KVK-Net: To increase communication between scientists and researchers across
various KVKs
 Month wise crop calendar for various crops

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 Web 2.0 concepts: agro-wiki, agro-forum and agro-blog harness the collective
intelligence of agricultural experts and publish them on the web instantly.
 Do’s and Don’ts on what should and should not be done during crop production.
5.2 ICT & Knowledge workers/intermediates
5.2.1 E-Sagu:
‘E-Sagu’ is a web-based personalized agro-advisory system which uses IT to solve the
unscientific agricultural practices. Sagu in Telugu-local language means cultivation In
which the project started E-Sagu means electronic cultivation. It is a joint research project of
Media lab Asia and IIIT Hyderabad
5.2.2 Aim of E-Sagu :
To develop an IT base Agriculture Extension System that such
 Personalized : To provide personalized advice to each farmer of india once in a week.
 Timely: Provide the advice in timely manner.
 Cost effective: Service should be affordable by farmer
5.2.3 How does it work?
• A team of agricultural knowledge experts work at the ‘E-Sagu’ main lab and they are
supportable by agricultural information system.
• One eSagu local centre consists few computer and computer operator cover a group of
about ten village. Educated and experienced farmer work as coordinators. Depending on
the crop each coordinators assigned a fix number of farmers.
• Coordinators collect registration data about farmer under him information about soil data,
water resources, crop and 4-5 photo of each farm. Send data to ‘E-Sagu’ centre.
• At ‘E-Sagu’ centre a team of agricultural knowledge experts analyses these information
and prepare farm specific advice ..The advice is downloaded at eScentre thought internet.
The Coordinators collect advice then prints out delivers to concerned farmers.

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5.3 Mobile Technology:
5.3.1 Kissan call:
The Department of Agriculture & Cooperation (DAC), Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of
India launched Kisan Call Centers on January 21, 2004.
5.3.2 Aim of Kissan call center:
 To facilitate farmers of the state to get information/solutions to their problems through
use of the Toll Free Number 1800-233-4433.
To deliver agricultural extension services to the farming community.
 To aware from technical agricultural in the rural areas to cover every farm.
 To serve as a feedback mechanism for the farmer.
5.3.3 How does it work?
• Farmers can call up Kissan Call Center (KCC) through a toll free number 1800-180-1551
(from any Landline or Mobile) / 1551 (from BSNL Landline).Call center services are
available from 6.00 am to 10.00 pm on all seven days of the week at each KCC location.
• Kisan Call Centre agents known as Farm Tele Advisor(FTAs).Registration of the farmers
is done by FTAs at the Kisan Call Centre who records personal details of the farmer in
the Kisan Knowledge Management System (KKMS).
• Farmer is then asked to opt for his mode of receiving information/advice i.e. Text
message (SMS) or Voice message
6. The advantages of ICT in AKM :
• ICT in agricultural knowledge management main advantages to increase the
competitiveness of Indian agriculture.
• To establish and sustain a knowledge organization based on Agriculture in India
• Provide an online and offline forum where all queries related to agriculture shall be
answered or discussed
• Provide farmers’ present source of agriculture information and information network
• Provide high level of agriculture related knowledge to the students, farmers and
agricultural experts etc.

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7. ICT have challenges in Indian agriculture:
• Poor ICT mechanisms and infrastructure: Also the challenge is the poor mechanisms and
infrastructure for sharing and exchanging agriculture knowledge national and regional
levels. Many research activities are repeated due to the lack of such mechanisms and
infrastructure at the national level.
• Lack of accès to information and communication technologies thar improve face-to-face
relationships.
• There is the challenge of lack of trained staff and ICT facilities. Without proper training
and education, available resources will be under-utilized.
• Radio or TV programs are broadcast at predefined schedules which may-or-may not be
convenient for farmers.
• How can be introduced all farmer into current training program?
• Improve public awareness about benefits of use of ICT in agriculture.
8. Conclusion:
The ability to manage knowledge effectively is the most important factor in enhancing the
productivity and competitiveness of Indian agriculture. ICT can be has powerful tools can be
provide help to farmer by getting the information and delivering to them at a time and place of
their choices and affordable for the rural level farmer..Some ICT related project such as web
portal are in progress for agricultural development.
So now farmers have to information about trend and technology needed in farming so as to
produce more and participate effectively in setting price of their product. To make all this
possible huge utilization of ICT must be taken as the first priority.

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9. References
https://shivkumardas.wordpress.com/?s=ICT
http://journal.km4dev.org/.pdf
http://www.manage.gov.in/studymaterial/AKM-E pdf/
http://www.wri.org/search/site/ict
http://www.ictworks.org/2011/10/12/ict-changing-face-agriculture/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279181982
http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in/
http://agritech.tnau.ac.in/kisan/kisan.html
http://www.mssrf.org/sites/default/files/VKC-Report.pdf