Knowledge Management in Agriculture: A Critical Analysis

Indian agriculture has immense scope in sustaining the livelihood of millions of farmers. Being a diverse ecological and socially background country, India is lagging behind the developed countries in agriculture sectors. To manage all the knowledge available in public, as well as private domain, it needs to integrate and make it accessible to all the stakeholders of agriculture, especially farmers. As a suggestive and curative method knowledge management can be a useful way to integrate all the knowledge. Knowledge management is basically about acquiring and storing knowledge and providing better access of right knowledge to the right person at the right time. In current changing scenario knowledge viewed as important input for agriculture which should be localised, context and content based. The present paper reviews the knowledge management process and knowledge management initiatives in organisation, agriculture and allied sectors.