An exhaustive knowledge base of contemporary agricultural practices that include inputs, production, pest control, nutrients, harvesting, storage, transportation of produce, etc would be developed and maintained in a data base, connected to the portal. Queries would be answered using this knowledge base. A team of advisors comprising agriculturalists, agrochemical experts, agronomists etc would be invited to the ANPL panel for technical expertise & consultancy. Since this is the backbone of agriculture, a very high premium would be placed on knowledge. The aim is to help the farmer in prevention of crop diseases and to achieve high productivity and quality with environmental protection and the sustainable use of resources - land, water, energy and waste. Each crop would have a CD as the knowledge tool covering most areas of concern to a typical farmer. ICS with inputs from agricultural expert would develop these CD's and other tools.