Knowledge modeling fore-agriculture using ontology

Agriculture is considered to be the backbone of the country´s economy. The emergence of ICT in the last couple of years has opened new challenges in the field of knowledge management concerning to distribution, sharing and integration. It is true that a lot of good practices related to agriculture are transferred without being well documented so most part of these practices remain tacit rather than explicit. Therefore, it is necessary to effectively manage knowledge for future generations before it disappears as a result of technological advancement. Knowledge management is considered as a challenge. In this paper, we have presented the knowledge management approach in the domain of agriculture, its results are presented by prototype implementation and its effectiveness has been checked by evaluation. This knowledge management approach assists the stakeholders to share and understand the domain and instance level knowledge, removes ambiguities as well as integration with other sources of knowledge compared to the traditional approaches of information management.