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Automating Agriculture

OBJECTIVE

Indian economy being an agrarian economy depends hugely on agriculture. A huge

percentage of the Gross Domestic Product is derived from agriculture.

An analysis of the current scenario reveals that there is huge shortage of labour to work in

the fields. The labour available is quite costly and with the emphasis shifting towards service

industry related jobs, the labour force isnt available easily for agriculture.

Furthermore, the practices currentlybeing used by farmers in India are obsolete and India isway behind rest of the countries of the world.

Hence the project aims at automating various processes related to agriculture, such as:

1. Ploughing2. Sowing3. Irrigation4. Use of fertilizers, insecticides & pesticides5. Harvesting, etc.

BLOCK DIAGRAM

1

Information input by the farmer about season, crop

type etc.

2

Information fed into a Microcontroller with a

predefined list of crop cycles, water, pesticidesrequirements

3

It decides the sequence of events to be followed by

the robot.

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APPLICATIONS

As mentioned above, the system has enormous potential in India. With fully automated and

intelligent fields, the quality of crops increases & the risk of human error minimises.Farmers are not subjected to back-breaking labour with such automated fields.

Above all, it reduces the amount of capital invested in the labour and using the village mass

for some other productive work rather mere using them as non-intelligent labours which

even a machine can be.

CONCLUSION

Its high time India adopts better and intelligent methods of crop production to safeguard

the rich diversity in crops and increase its production to meet the growing demad of food.

Also, to be rated as a world superpower, it needs tofree its people from back-breaking

labour when machines and robots are available that can perform the tasks easily and

cheaply.

4

The robot autonomously performs ploughing,

sowing, irrigating and other tasks as required.

5

Moisture sensors embedded in the soil regularlymonitor the moisture content and hence field isirrigated when required.

6

The system also incorporates rain water harvesting

system and solar panels for renewable energy.

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PROJ

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TEA

1. Akhil sh Trip thi Roll no- 0812232006 EI-61

Email ID tripathiakhilesh11@ mail.com

2. Ankur Sriv st v Roll no-0812232014

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3. Ch t n Swaroop SharmaRoll no-0812232020

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