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AI in Agriculture: An Emerging Era in Technology..
AI in Agriculture: An Emerging Era in Technology..

June 30, 2021

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AI in Agriculture: An Emerging Era in Technology

Introduction

In the economic sector of a country, agriculture plays the most important role. Automation in agriculture is of a great concern and the most emerging subject across the world. The population of the world is increasing tremendously and with it increases the demand of food and employment. The traditional methods which were used by the farmers, are not sufficient enough to fulfil these requirements. Thus, new automated methods are being introduced. These new methods are aimed to satisfy the food requirements and also to provide employment opportunities to billions of people.

The researcher in this paper aims to highlight on the usage of certain AI devices in the field of agriculture and their benefits.  

Usage of Robots in Agriculture

Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) are being introduced in large sectors of the economy with relatively low productivity such as Agri-Food. Robotics has played a substantial role in the agricultural production and management. The researchers have now started emphasizing on technologies to design autonomous agricultural tools as the conventional farming machineries lacked in efficiency. The main purpose of these technologies is to replace human labour and produce effective benefits on small as well as large scale productions. In this sector, the room for robotic technologies has amplified productivity immensely. The robots are performing various agricultural operations autonomously such as weeding, irrigation, guarding the farms for delivering effective reports, ensuring that the adverse environmental conditions do not affect the production, increase precision, and manage individual plants in various unfamiliar ways.

Usage of Chat-bots by the Farmers

Chat-bots are conversational virtual assistants who automate interactions with end users. Chat-bots powered by AI, along with machine learning techniques has enabled us to understand natural language and interact with users in away more personalized way. They are mainly equipped for retail, travel, media, and agriculture has used this facility by assisting the farmers to receive answers to their unanswered questions, for giving advice to them and providing various recommendations also.

Uses of AI in Irrigation

The technology of smart irrigation is being developed to increase the production without the involvement of large number of man power by detecting the level of water, temperature of the soil, nutrient content and weather forecasting. The actuation is performed according to the microcontroller by turning ON/OF the irrigator pump. The M2M that is, Machine to Machine technology is been developed to ease the communication and data sharing among each other and to the server or the cloud through the main network between all the nodes of the agricultural field.

Conclusion

The agricultural industry faces various challenges such as lack of effective irrigation systems, issues with plant monitoring due to crop height and extreme weather conditions. As a result, the implementation of AI or automation in the field of agriculture is the need of the hour. 

 


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