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Group Members:Fasil K V Shalu Mariam Sheji Vishnupriya C D

According to Draft Policy,

Smart Agriculture!!!

Potential applications in the domain

Identifying the ICT(Information and communication technologies) challenges of the Agri-Food sector to define the Architectural Requirements for a Future Internet Core Platform

Over the past thirty years ICT technologies have been introduced in the agriculture and food sectors, improving food production and its transportation to the end consumers.

Smart, Connected Applications Maximize Agricultural Business Performance

"ThingWorx Platform Gives OnFarm Rapid Go-to-Market Capabilities"

Business Challenges

OnFarm needed to move quickly to capitalize on a significant "smart agriculture" opportunity to build connected applications and dashboards that captured and monitored sensors in the field and provided actionable data back to their customers.

Solutions

OnFarm relied entirely on ThingWorx's extensive IoT development platform and ecosystem to quickly deliver on connected smart application capabilities

Climate smart agriculture applications

Smart Sensing Applications in Agriculture and Food Industry

Existing products

Netafim Launches Drip Irrigation Product

Revolutionising Indian Farming - with Israeli Technology

Swath Control and Variable Rate Technology

Autopilot Tractors

Drones to detect crop diseases

Drip irrigation is today recognized as the most advanced and efficient form of irrigation in the world. Netafim, which pioneered the invention 50 years ago, is the leader in the field, with 2 million customers in 110 countries, and 150 billion drippers produced since 1965

This form of irrigation was usually limited to fruit orchards and vegetable fields.

Aries is the first product in the company's line of next-gen drippers

OrionThe next-gen drippers irrigate at lower flow rates and higher flow uniformity.

This products reduces the installation cost and labour cost

Drip Irrigation Product

Autopilot Tractors

Trimble's AgGPS Autopilot - a new system that automatically steers tractors to within inches for row-crop applications.

The driver, with hands-free operation, can now concentrate on working the implements for listing, bed preparation, planting and cultivating.

Trimble's AgGPS Autopilot system easily connects to the tractor's power steering hydraulic system to automatically steer it in straight rows - pass after pass. A field computer inside the cab allows the operator to select field patterns and display operating parameters. A lightbar is used to guide the tractor on path at the beginning of a row. Once on a row, the driver engages the AgGPS Autopilot system to perform and oversee field operations.

At the heart of the system is a high-performance Trimble GPS navigation controller. Attached to the controller is an AgGPS 214 Real-Time Kinematic receiver, in-cab terminal, lightbar and AgGPS 70 Remote Display and Logger.

The first generation AgGPS Autopilot system is targeted for high value row crops such as vegetables and cotton.

Drones to help Rajasthan, Gujarat farmers detect crop diseases

Remote sensing through unmanned aerial vehicles allows non destructive sampling to observe agronomic indicators every square metre.

The technology has been in use in the United States and other developed countries to map crop position, control farm subsidies, detect pests, monitor nutritional and water stress on crops, and even spray fertilizer and pesticides on crops.

Skymet, along with the AIC and Gujarat government, used satellite remote sensing technologies and drones across 10 villages in Morbi district of Gujarat last year.

The automatic and remote controlled UAVs cover 5 sq km in a single flight, with generally two flights (missions) per day. UAVs send images every five seconds and provide geo referenced images.

Technologies using

vertical farming help save space on the ground by growing the crops vertically while drip irrigation saves almost 90 percent of water. These methods are revolutionary

protective agricultureis expensive as it requires greenhouses and poly-houses.

Building on GPS technology are swath control and VRT.

Swath control is:The farmer is controlling the size of the swath a given piece of equipment takes through the field

Swath control shuts off sections of the applicator as it enters the overlap area, saving the farmer from applying twice the inputs on the same piece of ground.

VRT-variable rate technology :Based on production history and soil tests a farmer can build a prescription GPS map for an input. By knowing what areas of a field are most and least productive the application rate of an input like fertilizer can be tailored to increase or decrease automatically at the appropriate time.

Precision agriculture:one way to increase the quality n quantity of agriproduction is using sensing technology ,make farm more intelligent and more connected through precision agriculture called smart farming

Precision agriculture (PA) or satellite farming or site specific crop management (SSCM) is a farming management concept based on observing, measuring and responding to inter and intra-field variability in crops.

Precision agriculture uses technology on agricultural equipment (e.g. tractors, sprayers, harvestors, etc.) positioning system (e.g. GPS receivers that use satellite signals to precisely determine a position on the globe);

geographic information systems (GIS), i.e., software that makes sense of all the available data; variable-rate farming equipment (seeder, spreader).

A XBEE based WSN with GSM Technology to Monitor
Paddy Field Environment

a wireless sensor network is built by deploying various sensors as network nodes to monitor various factors such as temperature, humidity, pH levels and water levels.

Zigbee technology such that the sensor network is monitored by a person in front of server computer by analysing the data also the personal computer will send GS short message to absent managers mobile phone by using GSM technology and AT commands.

it can conserve water and power. By using wireless technology and advanced processors monitoring of various sensors is possible.

farmers can decide amount of fertilization is needed for a particular field by observing recorded data from pH sensors.

Water consumption is minimized by controlling motor (using relay circuit) wirelessly with help of sensed data from water level sensors.

Global market leaders

Smart Agriculture Analytics (SAA)

SAA is the leading provider of market data on China's thriving modern agricultural technologies market, delivering high-yield data via our information platform, SAAdata.

Using a combination of automated technologies and human curation, their localized team of analysts and researchers organizes key data points into SAAdata's easy-to-use, bilingual interface, allowing multinational, multilingual teams to work more efficiently.

Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is a food production and distribution system that directly connects farmers and consumers. In short: people buy "shares" of a farm's harvest in advance and then receive a portion of the crops as they're harvested.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger and provides a forum for the negotiation of global agricultural regulations and agreements.

Global market leaders....

Geospatial Data Analysis Corporation (GDA) is a woman-owned business specializing in the analysis of satellite imagery and in particular the automated pre-processing, data extraction, analysis and operational delivery of intelligence products for agricultural, environmental and resource management.

International food security forum :The Third Global Forum of Leaders for Agricultural Science and Technology concerned about food security and food price in global market. They focused on agricultural policy making, process of agricultural science and technology and the cooperation between nations in development of agriculture.

FAO Trade and Markets division of the Food and Agriculture Organisation monitoring global issues affecting trade in agriculture

WTO World Trade Organisation international organisation dealing with the rules of trade between nations

IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute on markets, trade and institutions

USDA United States Department of Agriculture International Markets & Trade with data from USDAs Economic Research Service

R&D efforts..

One way to increase the quality and quantity of agriproduction is using sensing technology ,make farm more intelligent and more connected through precision agriculture(PA)called smart farming

Below are technologies related to agricultural and natural manufacturing under four key areas of accelerating change:

Sensors, Food, Automation and Engineering.

Air & soil sensors: Fundamental additions to the automated farm, these sensors would enable a real time understanding of current farm, forest or body of water conditions.

Scientifically viable in 2013; mainstream and financially viable in 2015.

Equipment telematics: Allows mechanical devices such as tractors to warn mechanics that a failure is likely to occur soon. Intra-tractor communication can be used as a rudimentary "farm swarm" platform.

Scientifically viable in 2013; mainstream in 2016; and financially viable in 2017.Livestock biometrics: Collars with GPS, RFID and biometrics can automatically identify and relay vital information about the livestock in real time.

Scientifically viable in 2017; mainstream and financially viable in 2020.

Crop sensors: Instead of prescribing field fertilization before application, high-resolution crop sensors inform application equipment of correct amounts needed. Optical sensors or drones are able to identify crop health across the field (for example, by using infra-red light).

Scientifically viable in 2015; mainstream in 2018; and financially viable in 2019.Infrastructural health sensors: Can be used for monitoring vibrations and material conditions in buildings, bridges, factories, farms and other infrastructure. Coupled with an intelligent network, such sensors could feed crucial information back to maintenance crews or robots.Scientifically viable in 2021; mainstream in 2025; and financially viable in 2027.

Precision agriculture: Farming management based on observing (and responding to) intra-field variations. With satellite imagery and advanced sensors, farmers can optimize returns on inputs while preserving resources at ever larger scales. Further understanding of crop variability, geolocated weather data and precise sensors should allow improved automated decision-making and complementary planting techniques.

Scientifically viable in 2019; mainstream in 2023; and financially viable in 2024.

Genetically designed food-The creation of entirely new strains of food animals and plants in order to better address biological and physiological needs. A departure from genetically modified food, genetically designed food would be engineered from the ground up.Scientifically viable in 2016; mainstream in 2021; and financially viable in 2022

In vitro meat: Also known as cultured meat or tubesteak, it is a flesh product that has never been part of a complete, living animal.

Agricultural robots: Also known as agbots, these are used to automate agricultural processes, such as harvesting, fruit picking, ploughing, soil maintenance, weeding, planting, irrigation, etc.

Agricultural policies

Agricultural policy is the set of government decisions and actions relating to domestic agriculture and imports of foreign agricultural products.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger and provides a forum for the negotiation of global agricultural regulations and agreements

It includes policies related to climate change, food safety and natural disasters, economic stability, natural resources and environmental sustainability (especially water policy), research and development, and market access for domestic commodities (including relations with global organizations and agreements with other countries).

Agricultural policy can also touch on food quality, ensuring that the food supply is of a consistent and known quality, food security, ensuring that the food supply meets the population's needs, and conservation.

Govt of India policies.....

BISA-CIMMYT catalysing policy makers to promote climate smart agriculture practices in Bihar

Walamtari is a government organisation in Hyderabad serving farmers of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh States,they use sensing Technology.

precision agriculture already exists on limited scale in India where few agencies do the wheat harvesting using combines and spraying of crops.

NICRA(National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture )is a network project of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) launched in February, 2011. The project is formulated to take up long term strategic research to address the impacts of projected climate change on Indian agriculture

and also demonstrate the existing best bet practices to enable farmers cope with current climate variability.

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