1Department of Agricultural Sciences, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Email Id- teshukumar@gmail.com
Online Published on 18 January, 2022.
In the face of a rising population, agriculture plays a critical role in solving food shortages and ensuring global food security. Mechanization has boosted crop production in the agricultural sector, ushering in a new era of agricultural precision. Modernizing agricultural equipment has lately altered the way farm machinery is used. The area of precision farming has transformed this breakthrough. Diverse kinds of high-quality effective sensors have been employed in the fields of active irrigation, fungicides, fertilizers, and disease control in various plants. As a result of this approach, agricultural output has increased, reducing production costs. Farmers have been able to relieve themselves using smartphone applications and high-speed internet thanks to the usage of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in agriculture. These applications correlate data received from a field with standard charts already stored in the database to give information required for a farmer to manage a crop accurately. This innovation in the automation of agricultural equipment not only ensures precision in agriculture, but it also aids farmers in increasing production and solving the world's food crisis. This study examines agricultural advancements by integrating Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for precision farming.
Agriculture, Equipment, Farming, Irrigation, Machinery