Knowledge Management System for Agriculture; A Case Study from Bursa Province

Knowledge has been crucial to people throughout the history. Knowledge acquisition is a key to economic and social power. Agricultural sector exposed to various risks such as extreme weather conditions, diseases, price fluctuations and those risks may be manipulated by multiple factors at the same time. Awareness of such risk and uncertainties that cannot be explicitly predicted but may be prevented with adequate knowledge is invaluable to those who have stakes in the sector. Gaining the required knowledge, integrating new knowledge into the established agricultural practices and sustaining this knowledge is essential to meet ever increasing human needs and the country's economy ''Agriculture Knowledge Systems'' collects data about various factors; climate conditions, temperature changes, drought, rainfall, wind, diseases, soil type, productivity levels and presents this materials to all stakeholders under one roof. This study aims to explore ''the Agriculture Knowledge Systems'' that aims to provide the ''reliable and timely'' data enhance agricultural knowledge available in the sector. In addition to this, research aims to understand and analyse the extent which agricultural engineers are familiar with use of internet and information technology systems. The research conducted in Bursa Provincial Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Livestock. The primary data obtained from the questionnaires in 2018. All 115 agricultural engineers currently working in the Directorate were personally invited to fill out the questionnaire. Main purpose of this study is to determine the expert opinions about agricultural monitoring and information system (Tarbil) on evaluating the applications which conducted to assess the overview of the method. Based on the results on this study, it has been concluded that agricultural engineers in Bursa were dominated by men and were categorically adults belonging to the age group of 41 to 50 years old. Most of the engineers work at the plant production department. Furthermore, it has been concluded that the internet daily time spent were very low, spending 1 to 2 hours per day. Internet usage for the engineers was perceived as networking