KMSCD: Knowledge management system for crop diseases

This paper presents a knowledge management system for crop disease. The aim of KMSCD is to provide a knowledge management tool for efficient knowledge acquisition, storage, knowledge engineering, processing and proper maintenance of knowledge that can be ultimately used by the diagnostic expert system. The development of the KMSCD simplifies the complete process of knowledge management by providing user-friendly interface to the domain expert for entering and storing the domain specific knowledge to solve the disease identification and control problem particularly for oil seeds crops. The system presently applies to the knowledge management of 25 prevalent diseases of three major oil seeds crops of India viz. soybean, ground nut and rapeseed mustard. The adopted development methodology and the experience acquired in the knowledge engineering and development of knowledge management system for crop disease are discussed in this paper.