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Policy For Promoting Smart: Farming Technologies
Policy For Promoting Smart: Farming Technologies
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Smart farming
Smart farming architecture
Smart farming technologies
Conclusion
Current scenario
Concept of smart agriculture
Sensing
Connectivity
Intelligence
Rajkumar and Sudarsanan (2020)
Smart farming architecture
smart farming technologies
Soil analysis
• Drone sprayer
• Security
• Drone Pollination
• Drone irrigation
• Drone Artificial
Intelligence
Benefits of Drone
• Identify pests, disease and weeds
• Optimize pesticide usage
• Refine fertilization
• Estimate crop yield
• Measure irrigation
• Replace problematic machinery
• Survey fencing and farm buildings
• Monitor livestock
3. Agribots/ Agricultural Robots
agriculture in India."
Existing policy to promote smart
farming
The Indian government supports smart farming enhance
productivity.
2022.
Farmers get real time advice and are financed to increase crop
productivity.
Along with this, the government of India plans to digitize the
date to sow.
Key challenges in Smart Farming adoption
Small landholdings
Unable to realize economies of scale in purchase of seeds,
manure, fertilizers, even in bank loans(considering transaction
cost, banks view it as uneconomical to provide small loans).
Farmers’ income
Low income means no access to capital for implementing the use
of IoT &other modern equipment that is needed for smart
farming.
Unskilled workers
Adequate training and education is required to firstly
understand the potential benefits of adopting smart farming and
subsequently implement and use SmartFarm devices, and also
understand insights and act on them
Availability of basic amenities like roads, electricity, and water
is a concern in certain remote areas
Way forward
Identify the niche areas for the promotion of crop specific Smart
farming
agriculture implementation
NITs, etc. to design machinery like robots and drones for Smart Agriculture.
agriculture
In the light of today’s urgent need, there should be an all out effort
to use new technological inputs to make the ‘Green Revolution’ as an
‘Evergreen Revolution’.
Conclusion
productivity in India.
across regions.
So, with the right framework and roadmap in place, it is likely that
smart Farming will enable Indian farmers to produce more and better
with less, and thereby earn more and enhance their standard of living.
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