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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), for example, (accuracy
hardware, the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors and actuators, geo-positioning
systems, Big Data, Drones), robots, and so on are used to comprehend the need
of agriculturists.
Some of the most useful measures used in IoT are moisture, nitrogen, fertility of the
soil, phosphorous, soil impedance rate and water retention. These readings including
the vegetation, characteristics and measurements taken at some day provide a good
look up at some other date.
Adoption of Smart Farming Technologies in India
All the businesses involving agriculture provides for 18% of the GDP and employ
58% of the people throughout India. When there were 71.9% farmers in 1951, the
population of farmers in India has shrunk to 45.1% in 2011. According to the
Economic Survey 2018, the agronomists will be reduced to 25.7% by 2050 [37].
The high cost per agriculture, low production and lack of proper soil management
has disinterested the farmers and there is a subsistent reduction in the next generation
farmers. The time has essentially come for the farmers to take the advantage of the
IoT in agricultural domain to reap its benefits.
Is the Farmer Ready for Smart Agriculture?
The gap between the introduction of a new technology its implementation and its
adoption is very big. This becomes all the more aloof when the target users are
the farmers of and undeveloped country. Most of the farmers in India are novice to
even smart phones and their lack of interest and hesitation towards learning a new
technology makes the task of adoption difficult by many times. The technical words
like ‘transaction’ is probably not even heard by them [38, 39].
The Indian farms are small in size with nearly 80% of them even less than 2 ha
and 30% irrigated by natural sources.
Including drones and satellite images, sensors, the horticulture industry is
changing quite noticeable way [40]. Smart farming [41], Precision and digital farming
[42] though related terms do have a finer difference in their meaning.
1.5.3 Precision Agriculture
McKinsey and Company characterize precision agriculture as: “a technologyenabled approach to farming management that observes, measures, and analyzes
the needs of individual fields and crops” [43]. 2016 report apprises on how useful
information collected over years will modify the global food chain, According to
McKinsey, the graph of precision agriculture is governed by two trends: “big-data
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), for example, (accuracy
hardware, the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors and actuators, geo-positioning
systems, Big Data, Drones), robots, and so on are used to comprehend the need
of agriculturists.
Some of the most useful measures used in IoT are moisture, nitrogen, fertility of the
soil, phosphorous, soil impedance rate and water retention. These readings including
the vegetation, characteristics and measurements taken at some day provide a good
look up at some other date.
Adoption of Smart Farming Technologies in India
All the businesses involving agriculture provides for 18% of the GDP and employ
58% of the people throughout India. When there were 71.9% farmers in 1951, the
population of farmers in India has shrunk to 45.1% in 2011. According to the
Economic Survey 2018, the agronomists will be reduced to 25.7% by 2050 [37].
The high cost per agriculture, low production and lack of proper soil management
has disinterested the farmers and there is a subsistent reduction in the next generation
farmers. The time has essentially come for the farmers to take the advantage of the
IoT in agricultural domain to reap its benefits.
Is the Farmer Ready for Smart Agriculture?
The gap between the introduction of a new technology its implementation and its
adoption is very big. This becomes all the more aloof when the target users are
the farmers of and undeveloped country. Most of the farmers in India are novice to
even smart phones and their lack of interest and hesitation towards learning a new
technology makes the task of adoption difficult by many times. The technical words
like ‘transaction’ is probably not even heard by them [38, 39].
The Indian farms are small in size with nearly 80% of them even less than 2 ha
and 30% irrigated by natural sources.
Including drones and satellite images, sensors, the horticulture industry is
changing quite noticeable way [40]. Smart farming [41], Precision and digital farming
[42] though related terms do have a finer difference in their meaning.
1.5.3 Precision Agriculture
McKinsey and Company characterize precision agriculture as: “a technologyenabled approach to farming management that observes, measures, and analyzes
the needs of individual fields and crops” [43]. 2016 report apprises on how useful
information collected over years will modify the global food chain, According to
McKinsey, the graph of precision agriculture is governed by two trends: “big-data