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Smart Farming through Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence -AI has the potential to empower agriculture and creating next-generation farming practices. 

India is an agrarian economy with ~54.6% of people directly dependant on agriculture as their primary source of livelihood. In recent years, Government of India has extended the adoption of emerging technology to improve agricultural practices, efforts, crops, and ROI.

IHT has initiated the use of AI in Horticultural Crop Production, although still in baby steps but ultimate aim is to use the AI for better returns in farming, as 87% of U.S. agriculture businesses are currently using AI. Presently, we use and showcase the sensor based fertigation, irrigation and climate control in greenhouses and are in process in adopting other application of AI.

World has to feed the rising population as per UN projections it will increase from 7.5 billion to 9.7 billion in 2050¹, there will be more pressure on land as there will be only an extra 4% of land, which will come under cultivation by 2050.

Traditional methods are not enough to handle this huge demand, as a result, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has to emerge as part of the Indian Agriculture. The challenge is to increase the global food production by 50% by 2050² to feed an additional two billion people.

AI powered solutions will enable farmers to improve efficiencies as well as improve quantity, quality and ensure faster go-to-market for crops.

Various applications of agriculture intelligence are:

• Precision farming,
• Disease detection, and crop phenotyping with the help of numerous tools such as machine learning, deep learning,
• Image processing,
• Artificial neural network, deep learning, convolution neural network,
• Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) technology,
• Wireless communication,
• Robotics,
• Internet of Things(IOT), different genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic and
• Computer vision

With the help of these technologies, the use of the colossal volume of chemicals can be used reduced, which would result in reduced expenditure improved soil fertility along with elevated productivity.