it applications in agriculture
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IT APPLICATIONS IN AGRICULTURE
EMILY RENU THOMAS
1st SEM MBA (FT)
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• Agriculture
• IT revolution
• IT in Agriculture– Govt. Initiatives– Technologies involved– Areas of application
• Advantages and challenges
Contents
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Agriculture
• Production of food and goods • Rearing of crops and livestock • Provides livelihoods to over
70% of the Indian population • Contributes 16.6% to GDP of
India
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IT revolution
• Concept of global village• Information just a click away• There is no sector that has not felt the impact
of IT revolution• Systems made more efficient• Reduced wastage of resources
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IT & Agriculture
• Improving efficiency and productivity of agriculture
• Supporting & empowering farmers to make quality decisions
• Providing reliable data
• Ease in procurement of data
• Prosperity and empowerment of rural area
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Information dissemination
• Awareness Databases• Decision Support Systems• Promote formation of co-operative alliances• Information on new opportunities• Monitoring systems
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Govt. of India's Digital Initiatives
• Step towards “reaching” agricultural knowledge and technology to the Small Holders
• Agrisnet, Agris, Agmarknet, Dacnet, Vistarnet, Aphnet, Fishnet, Hortnet, Seednet, Ppin etc
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Agmark (http://agmark.nic.in)
• Agricultural marketing information network• Project initiated under the 9th five year plan• This project has networked 735 Agricultural
Produces Wholesale Markets• Enable farmers to bargain better prices for their
produce
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Dacnet (http://dacnet.nic.in)
• An e-governance portal
• Faster delivery of services
• Reduction in corruption
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Seednet(http://seednet.gov.in)
• This online portal provides a large amount of seeds related information. – Type of seeds available– New GM seeds developed
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Precision agriculture
• Method of agriculture which takes in to account in-field variables• Reduces wastage• Tools that assist in precision agriculture are:
- Global Positioning System (GPS) - Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Remote Sensing- Sensors and robotics
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GPS
• Accurately gives the position or location of an object, thus helps in navigation, surveying etc
• Made of three parts: – satellites orbiting the Earth– control and monitoring stations on Earth– the GPS receivers
• GPS satellites signals from space are picked up and identified by GPS receivers and gives details on location.
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• GPS-based applications in precision farming are :– farm planning, field mapping, soil sampling,
– tractor guidance, yield mapping.
– to work during low visibility field conditions such as rain, dust, fog, and darkness.
– more precise application of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers
– better control of the dispersion of chemicals
• Thus reduces wastage, produce a higher yields and creates a more environmentally friendly farm.
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GIS & Remote Sensing in Agriculture
• Soil Properties Sensing: Soil Texture, Structure, and Physical Condition, Soil Moisture, Soil Nutrients.
• Crop Sensing: Plant Population, Crop Stress and Nutrient Status.
• Yield Monitoring Systems: Crop Yield, Harvest, Crop Moisture
• Others: Fertilizer flow, Weed detection, Pressure sensors
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Sensors and Robotics
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Computerised Irrigation
• Apply water in the necessary quantity and at the right time with the help of sensors.
• How?– Measures moisture content of the soil– Compares the measured value with the
desired value– Provides water until the measured value
equals the desired value
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Selective Harvesting
• Sense the quality factor before harvest • Sensors mounted ascertain the crop condition. • The selective harvester then harvests the crop
that is ready, leaving the rest to mature or ripen, without damaging them.
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Robotic fruit picking
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Robot that measures crop nutrient status and stress
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Weeder
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Robotic milking
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Robotic Shearing
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IT enabled weather forecasting
• Climate prediction– Rainfall– Temperature– Soil moisture– El Nino– Cyclones
• Weather monitoring software and equipments are available that can be connected to your PC.
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• National Informatics Centre– www.weather.nic.in
• The National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF)
• Satellites – INSAT– Meteosat– Oceansat 2 (forecast weather, identify
potential fishing zones)
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Advantages
• Ease-of-use
• Speed of information delivery
• Low incidence of errors
• More efficient methods and practices
• Globalization of agriculture
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Challenges
• Agriculture is directly dependent on nature and nature is unpredictable. Hence unforeseen problems may creep in.
• Spreading awareness and educating farmers.
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