KrishiKosh (कृषिकोष), an Institutional Repository under National Agricultural Research System (NARS) is under the process of its launch which can be accessed here. KrishiKosh is made up of two words from hindi. The word 'Krishi' means Agriculture and 'Kosh' means Theca, a case. Yes, definitely, 'KrishiKosh' is a 'Case of Agriculture Knowledge' created/generated in the NARS of India.

Currently KrishiKosh is housing 22210 records of Articles, Books, Institutional Publications, Journals, Conference Proceedings, Reports  and Thesis.

This project is envisaged under Component-1 of National Agriculture Innovation Project (NAIP) of Indian Council of Agricultural Reserach (ICAR) whose objective is to build the critical capacity of the ICAR as a catalyzing agent. Under the Component-1 of NAIP, the project 'Strengthening of digital library and information management under NARS (e-Granth) at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi was started in May, 2009 with the budget of 86.1481 million rupees with Years 11 partners.

Under the e-Granth, development of 'AgriCat',  a union catalogue of the holdings of major libraries of the ICAR Institutes and State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) and Institutional Repository for NARS with collections of old and valuable books and various other records and documents housed at different libraries in NARS are the two major activities.

In the year 2012, the KrishiKosh was built and configured on DSpace by HCL Infosystems Ltd. and is also managing the same.

While the partner institutes/universities are uploading their content of records, for thesis metadata, it has records integrated with KrishiPrabha, a full-text electronic database of Indian Agricultural Doctoral Dissertations submitted by 36 Agricultural Universities/Institutes under NARS during period from 1.1.2000 to 31.12.2006 which is currently hosted at Nehru Library, Ch. Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar under the NAIP Component-1.

The largest community on KrishiKosh is the IARI with 6844 records. Now when the KrishiKosh is officially launched and announced, it would have all the information of agriculture knowledge generated in NARS for public use.

Kind acknowledgements are due to Dr. H.S. Gupta (Consortium Leader), Dr. A.K. Jain (Consortium Principal Investigator), e-Granth Project Partners and Associates.