PRESENTED BY

AJAY KUMAR
B.TECH(ECE)
(160120102002)
BATCH 2016-2020
 Contents
1. Introduction to Agrotronics
2. Importance of Agriculture
3. Challenges in Agriculture
4. Current scenario of Agriculture in India
5. Introduction of electronics in Agriculture
6. Different sensors and devices for smart(digital) agriculture
7. Advantages of smart agriculture
8. Disadvantages of smart agriculture
9. Future scope of Agrotronics in India
10. Conclusion
1. Agrotronics = Agriculture
+ Electronics
2. Use of automatic systems
for performing different
agriculture related task like
irrigation, cultivation etc.
3. Agrotronics is based on
embedded systems, IOT,
and robotics.
Importance of Agriculture
1. A major portion of National income come from agriculture.
2. Agriculture provides raw materials to industries.
3. Agriculture creates employment opportunities.
4. Agriculture plays a crucial role in our international trade.
5. Agriculture creates infrastructural facilities.
6. Importance for industrial development.
7. Agriculture feeds the large population of our country.
8. Agriculture and farmers are the backbone of our country as
India is 8th biggest agriculture based country.
9. India accounts for 7.39 percent of total global agricultural
output.
Challenges in Agriculture
1. Long term growth is still 2.5% per annum.
2. Productivity level of India is still low as compared to other
countries.
3. 21% agriculture investment led to only 3 to 3.5% growth.
4. Increased cost of cultivation.
5. Yield gap in known technologies.
6. Shortage of non-cereals: pulses, oilseeds etc.
7. Green revolution technology have less impact on dry land
and rainfed areas.
8. Not presence of well furnished warehouse and coldstorage.
Current scenario of agriculture in India
Electronics in Agriculture
Different sensors
1. Location sensors use GPS satellite to determine latitude and
longitude of required area.
2. Optical sensor uses light to measure soil properties.
3. Electro-chemical sensor provides key information and soil
nutrient levels.
4. Mechanical sensors measure soil compaction.
5. Dielectric soil moisture sensor assess moisture level in soil.
6. Air flow sensors measure soil air permeability.

Fig. Soil humidity sensor

Different devices for smart agriculture

Automatic weeder
Drone based sprayer
Drone based precision farming
Automatic irrigation system
Advantages of smart agriculture
1. Accurate farm and field evaluation.
2. Increased production
3. Water conservation
4. Lowered operation cost.
5. Increased quality of production.
6. Reduced environmental footprint.
7. Real time data and production insight.
8. Improved storage and reduced wastage after production.
9. Less manual requirement.
10. Reduced labor cost.
Disadvantages of smart agriculture
1. It requires the farmer to learn the use of technology.
2. It requires availability internet continuously.
3. Reduced requirement of man power results in unemployment.
4. Agriculture is based on nature and a human can not predict
the future
5. It requires high installment charges.
6. Complexity in maintenance.
Future scope of Agrotronics in India
Conclusion
1. It may be concluded that there is a great requirement of smart
agriculture in India.
2. As smart agriculture can improve the production up to a great
extent it is the best option to avoid food shortage.
3. According to surveys done previously the farmers are
committing suicide continuously because of losses in
farming so the use of smart farming is a efficient solution for
this issue.
4. Using smart farming we can improve the production cost,
reduce man power, improve quality production etc.
5. So there is a huge business opportunity for implementing a
business in production of autonomous tractors, automatic
agriculture task performing devices.
Thank you!