International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 11 Issue: 07 | July 2024
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Sustainable farming through Precision Agriculture – A patent analysis Surekha Bijapur1, Sheela N S1, Dr. Janapati Venkata Krishna2 1 Research Scholar 2 Associate Professor,
1 Department of Computer Science Engineering and Technology
Srinivas University, Mangaluru , Karnataka. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract - In the era of growing population there is a high 1. Need of soil testing need to increase the agricultural potential. Sustainable development is also of at most concern. Growing demand for the food burdens the nature with excessive chemicals. Agriculture and agro-industries are considered to be highly important for the country’s economic development as they contribute significantly in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Although the service and industrial sectors showed higher rates of growth and have been contributing higher percentages to Gross National Product (GNP), Worldwide, expansion in agricultural commodities and food products has been accompanied by significant increase in usage of agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, farm machinery and improved seed material. The use of such intensive inputs in agriculture and access to plentiful energy, where they were previously limited or unavailable, has enabled an increase in food production and thus provides better food and livelihood security. The paper discusses about the different patents given in the area of sustainable agriculture. In the course of action, we discuss about some of the modern technologies which have helped the framers not only in increasing crop productivity but also in sustainable development.
Farmers which are growing the same crop will be using the same fertilizers and also using the same quantity of fertilizers many are times the crop might already be containing these nutrients since their farms are situated in different areas obviously the nutrients available in the land will also be different. The reason why farmers do not take interest on the soil testing is that either they need to travel to the place where the testing takes place or the tester himself has to visit the land. Hence, they choose their own decisions. Since the testing is done only on a particular sample the decisions will be taken based on the result of this particular sample only. But the nutrients and moisture content differs from one part to another part of the land these decisions often lead to the economic losses along with spoiling the nature.
2. Factors affecting crop growth
Key Words: agricutlture, sustainability, machine learning, precision agriculture
1.INTRODUCTION Population of the world is growing in an exponential way. But the agricultural land is not growing at the same rate. In fact, it is actually shrinking due to constructional activities. The large population has to be fed in the available land, hence there is a need to increase the crop productivity. Agriculture has shifted its scope and focuses more towards commercialization and export-orientation. Farmers have started using chemical fertilizers as a solution to increase the productivity but it is actually harming the nature and depleting the soil nutrients which again lead to the under performance in the future days. Though these chemicals are temporarily increasing the productivity, they are harming the human health as well as the nature's health so it is crucial to increase farm performance without depleting the nature.
Fig -1: Variation in the yeild Though we use the same inputs in same quantity, the yield at different parts of the same land is different. Since the same quantity of inputs(fertilizers, water, pesticides) are used, the result expected is also the same. But this thing doesn’t happen in many of the cases as illustrated in the following picture. This leaves us to think on different internal and external factors that affect the health of the plant. Following are the major factors which contribute to the plant health and productivity.
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