Agricultural knowledge transfer in India: a study of prevailing communication channels.

Library Philosophy and Practice | February 1, 2007| | Copyright

Agriculture has been a part of human life since the beginning of the human race and the need for agricultural information is probably almost as old as agriculture itself. Babylonian clay tablets have been found that contain agricultural information. Blanchard (1997) hypothesized that, "the great library at Alexandria undoubtedly had many treatises on agriculture inscribed on papyrus". Throughout history, in many civilizations, there have been libraries that have included agricultural information, and separate agricultural libraries were established in Europe in the ...

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