PROJECT SYNOPSIS ON Automating Agriculture

OBJECTIVE
Indian economy being an agrarian economy depends hugely on agriculture. A huge percentage of the Gross Domestic Product is derived from agriculture. An analysis of the current scenario reveals that there is huge shortage of labour to work in the fields. The labour available is quite costly and with the emphasis shifting towards service industry related jobs, the labour force isn t available easily for agriculture. Furthermore, the practices currently being used by farmers in India are obsolete and India is way behind rest of the countries of the world. Hence the project aims at automating various processes related to agriculture, such as: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Ploughing Sowing Irrigation Use of fertilizers, insecticides & pesticides Harvesting, etc.

BLOCK DIAGRAM Information input by the farmer about season, crop type etc. Information fed into a Microcontroller with a predefined list of crop cycles, water, pesticides requirements It decides the sequence of events to be followed by the robot.

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The robot autonomously performs ploughing, sowing, irrigating and other tasks as required. Moisture sensors embedded in the soil regularly monitor the moisture content and hence field is irrigated when required. The system also incorporates rain water harvesting system and solar panels for renewable energy.

APPLICATIONS
As mentioned above, the system has enormous potential in India. With fully automated and intelligent fields, the quality of crops increases & the risk of human error minimises. Farmers are not subjected to back-breaking labour with such automated fields. Above all, it reduces the amount of capital invested in the labour and using the village mass for some other productive work rather mere using them as non -intelligent labours which even a machine can be.

CONCLUSION
Its high time India adopts better and intelligent methods of crop production to safeguard the rich diversity in crops and increase its production to meet the growing demad of food. Also, to be rated as a world superpower, it needs to free its people from back-breaking labour when machines and robots are available that can perform the tasks easily and cheaply.

1. Akhil sh Trip thi Roll no- 0812232006 EI-61 Email ID tripathiakhilesh11@ mail.com 2. Ankur Sriv st v Roll no-0812232014 EI-61 Email ID ankursrivastava9291@ mail.com 3. Ch t n Swaroop Sharma Roll no-0812232020 EI-61 Email ID dr.chetansharma@ mail.com

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