Analysis of India’s Agricultural Ecosystem using Knowledge-based Tantra Framework Shreekanth M Prabhu, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru Natarajan Subramanyam, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PES University, Bangalore ABSTRACT The information systems have been extremely useful in managing businesses, enterprises, and public institutions such as government departments. But today’s challenges are increasingly about managing ecosystems. Ecosystem is a useful paradigm to better understand a variety of domains such as biology, business, industry, agriculture, and society. In this paper, we look at the Indian Agricultural ecosystem. It is a mammoth task to assimilate the information for the whole ecosystem consisting of consumers, producers, workers, traders, transporters, industry, and Government. There are myriad interventions by the state and the central Governments, whose efficacy is difficult to track and the outcomes hard to assess. A policy intervention that helps one part of the ecosystem can harm the other. In addition, sustainability and ecological considerations are also extremely important. In this paper, we make use of the Knowledge-based Tantra Social Information Management Framework to analyze the Indian Agricultural Ecosystem and build related Knowledge Graphs. Our analysis spans descriptive, normative, and transformative viewpoints. Tantra Framework makes use of concepts from Zachman Framework to manage aspects of social information through different perspectives and concepts from Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) to represent interrelationships between aspects. Keywords: Framework, Ecosystem, Information Management, Information Ecosystem, Ontology, Governance, Agriculture, Knowledge Graph Biographical Notes Dr Shreekanth M Prabhu is currently working as Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CMR institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India. He received his M. Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1986. After that he worked with IT Majors such as TCS, IBM and Hewlett Packard for 25 years. He received his PhD in Computer and Information Science Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India in 2020. His research interests include Frameworks and Models, Social Networks, E-Governance and Linguistics. Dr Natarajan Subramanyam holds PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH), India He is currently Professor and Key Resource Person in Computer Science and Engineering, Department of CSE of PES University, Bangalore, India. He is a Life Member of Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) etc. He is Reviewer of articles published in Elsevier, Springer, and IEEE etc. Prior to taking up teaching and research in 2005 he was a Senior Scientist at National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for nearly three decades. During his stint at NRSC he was Deputy Project Director of Large-Scale Mapping (LSM) Project.