Volume : V, Issue : IX, September - 2015

Agricultural Knowledge Management Mechanisms

Prof. G. Ilankumaran

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The Indian Agriculture is highly diversified in terms of its climate, soil, crops, horticultural crops, plantation crops, livestock resources, fisheries resources, water resources, etc. the diversity of its agricultural sector is both a bane and boon to the social, economic, and cultural bases of India’s vast population. In agriculture, innovation can include new knowledge or technologies related to primary production, processing, and commercialization, which can positively affect the productivity, competitiveness, and livelihoods of farmers and others in rural areas. Agricultural Knowledge Management System is a platform facilitating extraction, storage, retrieval, integration, transformation, visualization, analysis, dissemination, and utilization of knowledge. This study is the outcome of the survey conducted among 55 Agricultural institutions actively engaged in imparting Agricultural Knowledge Management among the rural mass in Tamilnadu. The data have been analysed with the help of t test and multi correlation analysis and the result shows that The efforts taken and put forwarded by the stakeholders were good as per the survey result but still farmers do lack in the knowledge of depending on experiments and to develop new knowledge from journals and magazines.

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Prof. G. Ilankumaran Agricultural Knowledge Management Mechanisms Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 9 September 2015

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