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The Process of Making RKMPKnowledge Management in agriculture is relatively a new concept. The mammoth task of driving the knowledge sharing process in agriculture requires lot of efforts at various hierarchical levels among agricultural organizations.
In India, there is an urgent and strong need to adapt the KM strategies in agriculture. In line with RKMP, there is a need to upscale KM initiatives in agriculture.
But before that, relevant human resources, tools, processes, strategies should be in place to transform agricultural organizations into “learning organizations”. We are of the opinion that frameworks and success stories of KM worldwide need to be analyzed to prepare a road map for “KM in Agriculture”.
As a part of this vision, we wish to share the process that is involved in “Making of RKMP”. If you are planning to work on agricultural semantic portals in future, please write to us for AKM (Agricultural Knowledge Management) tools, processes and strategies.
About Dr. Shaik N Meera Print Send to friend
Dr Shaik N Meera is a Senior Scientist (Agricultural Extension) with a cafeteria of skill sets and achievements in Agricultural Research & Development. He is one of the earliest extension scientists who contributed to the development of ICT enabled extension in India.
As Consortium Principal Investigator, he is spearheading a flagship project on “Development and Maintenance of Rice Knowledge Management Portal (RKMP)”. This is the first extension centric information portal in India, providing the most comprehensive agricultural knowledge directly from the scientific community. Rice Knowledge Management Portal was launched in the presence of Honorable Prime Minister of India on 16th July 2011.
As a Principal Investigator of DBT Sponsored project on “Improving the Livelihoods of SC/ST Farmers through Rice Technology Interventions”, he is instrumental in uplifting 120 tribal farm families directly. Intensive extension efforts were tried in 12 tribal hamlets over a period of 3 years to achieve this.
As National Coordinator of Frontline Demonstrations on Rice, in last 5 years, about 5322 FLDs of 1 hectare each have been conducted benefitting 13,755 rice farmers directly. About 2064 tonnes of seed of HYV, Hybrids is distributed to farmers through this programme. An innovative attempt has been made to document all the demonstration efforts using the latest ICT tools and compiled as a database. This database is included in the rice knowledge management portal (www.fld.rkmp.co.in) for effective use by the extension workers.
As Coordinator of training programmes, in last five years, totally 19 training programs on various aspects of rice production technologies were organized including IPM in rice, Quality control on basmati rice, Marker assisted selection in rice, Hybrid rice breeding, Hybrid rice production technology, System of Rice Intensification and Hybrid rice seed production technology. In total 417 participants from state department of agriculture, state agricultural universities, ICAR institutes and executives from public and private sectors were trained.
As a young scientist he carried out the research on various aspects of harnessing ICTs in agricultural development with special reference to the ICTs enabled agricultural extension. His work on Applications of E-Learning in Agriculture: Designing an ODL Content Management System for Rice Technologies is perhaps the only empirical study conducted on assessing the e-readiness parameters in extension systems.
As Principal Investigator of several extension research projects, involved in developing and using innovative approaches for transfer of technology and extension education processes. Some of the innovations include
• use of Information and Communication Technologies for speedy transfer of knowledge & technologies
• Harnessing Knowledge Management strategies for strengthening the information flow in rice sector
• Village Level Studies on Climate change: Vulnerability, Adaptations and Sustainable Livelihoods in Rice Farming
• Developing e-learning courses for online and offline delivery to extension officers
• Participatory varietal selection and Farmers’ First Approach
• Video and Audio files for transferring ‘do how’ technologies
• Capturing the innovative spirit of rice farmers by organizing ‘Innovative Rice Farmers Meet’
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