Abstract - The paper describes the design, development and
implementation of a specialized system for the management
of insect-pests in pulse crops. It is a web-based system that
facilitate “farmers/extension workers” to diagnose insectpests
of major pulse crops viz., Chickpea, Pigeonpea,
Mungbean and Urdbean (highly consumed pulse crops) and
recommends the suitable treatments. Knowledge acquisition
sub - system of the system offers online interface for entering,
storing and structuring the domain specific knowledge to the
domain experts. This paper also presents a methodology to
develop an integrated knowledge base which combines the
knowledge fed by the multiple experts in the framework of
knowledge. The system holds an integrated knowledge base
that incorporates information for the diagnosing of 20 major
insect-pests of pulses emerging right from seedling to
ripening. The presented work provides user-friendly interface
that is able to asks the textual as well as pictographic
symptoms in the outline form of multiple-choice
questionnaire. Based on given answers, system identifies the
pulse crop insect-pests along with its confidence factor and
recommends most suitable treatments. The system’s
performance was found good and comparison between
recommendations of human experts and system itself showed
92% agreement.