Smart Agriculture
Smart agriculture is one of the best approaches to increase production for competing with the increasing population of our country. Smart Agriculture helps to increase the production of different crops by transforming or reorienting agricultural systems. Three main objectives of Smart Agriculture are as follows
- Helps in increasing the income and employment rate by involving more farmers in the agricultural system.
- Increase in agricultural productivity.
- Helps in reducing the harmful emissions of greenhouse gas.
Smart agriculture is also known as precision agriculture helps to maintain the production of food using minimal resources such as fertilizer, water and seeds irrespective of climate change. Sensors involved in the system helps in controlling or monitoring the use of resources in large proportions, also helps in reducing impacts on the environmental system.
Advantages of Smart Agriculture
- Increase productivity: The use of Smart Agriculture helps in producing more and better quality nutritious food and helps in increasing the income and employment rate by 60 percent for those who live in rural areas and are completely dependent on agriculture for their livelihood.
- Reduce harmful emissions: Smart agriculture helps in reducing the impacts of harmful gases, avoids deforestation, and absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
- Sensors: Various sensors involved in the system helps in monitoring the soil moisture, soil temperature, solar radiation, atmospheric pressure, air temperature, air humidity, soil oxygen level, soil water potential, luminosity, etc.
- More benefits of using smart agriculture are Fast response, User-friendly, Efficient, Low-cost design, etc.
Working of Smart Agriculture:
Many farmers have already begun implementing this technique of smart agriculture for improving their efficiency. Sensors installed in the fields can be used to obtain detailed information for the presence of acidity and rapid increase in the temperature of the soil. Farmers with the use of sensors can also get access to know weather patterns or climatic forecasts remotely. Sensors also help the farmers to monitor their equipment, crops, fertilizers, etc. Farmers can also keep visibility on their lands and can perform field analysis with the use of drones.
Features of Smart Agriculture
- Presence of high-quality sensors in the system.
- Real-time monitoring of agricultural systems even in isolated locations.
- Large number of weather stations to monitor the atmospheric temperature.
- Radiation sensors for monitoring the ultraviolet radiation at a micro-scale.
- Helps in easy monitoring of the presence of fertilizer by measuring soil water potentials, electrical conductivity, oxygen levels.
Nowadays many farmers are using this technique of smart agriculture in their lands to avoid over-irrigation and to maintain soil erosion to a large extent. Overall the system is cheaper, easy to use, and efficient than other automation system. Also, the presence of sensors in the system helps to control the use of essential and expensive resources to a larger extent.
