Volume : III, Issue : X, October - 2013

Role of Translation in Agriculture Knowledge Management in India

Priyadarshini I. Sanikop, Dr. Rajendra M. Nayak

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Agriculture is the key income source and livelihood for around three–fourth of the India’s total population especially for those who live in villages. Agriculture is the only major source which can feed the nation. As we know Knowledge is the key force for every sector including agriculture we started many initiations to manage the agriculture knowledge. When we look at the initiations in India to fulfill the knowledge and information needs of the farmers we are far behind of real expectation. Majority of the Indian farmers are non–literates, neo–literates and literates only in mother language. In this situation though there is enormous knowledge resources for agriculture majority of them are other than mother language. When we see records of best practices, research outputs and initiations in agriculture are all in English language and other foreign language. As farmers are not able to utilize the existing knowledge resources due to language barrier knowledge management initiation must give primary priority to solve this problem. Here only solution for this problem is translation. Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source–language text by means of an equivalent target–language text when we translate agriculture knowledge to every target language we can see the greater impact of that knowledge on farmers. Here we have made an attempt to discuss the importance of knowledge management in Indian agriculture and role of translation in managing and communicating knowledge to farmers.

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Priyadarshini I. Sanikop, Dr. Rajendra M. Nayak / Role of Translation in Agriculture Knowledge Management in India / Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.3, Issue.10 October 2013

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