


Each crop requires entirely different management practices and cropping pattern. The management problems also include the lack of enough experts and availability of experts at the farmer's field to support the crop growers. The overall crop production management problems involve, among many others, management of diseases and insect-pests, integrated water and fertilizer managements, crop economics etc. INTRODUCTION This paper explores the possibilities of designing, developing and implementation of an Expert System for different activities of agriculture in integrated approach. This paper explores structure of an expert system, role of expert system in agriculture along with details of expert system developed in the different field of agriculture and also possibilities of designing, developing and implementation of an expert system for agriculture would motivate scientists and extension workers to investigate possible applications for the benefit of entire agricultural community. Different domains of agriculture are highlighted where expert systems can play an important role for an expert in transferring expert-driven knowledge instantly at the level of farmer's field. Role of expert systems in agriculture and its applications in efficient crop production and protection technologies has been reviewed and discussed in this paper.
