According to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), about 30-35% of crop loss gets wasted due to a pest attack in India. The term pests include animals (mainly insects), fungi, plants, bacteria, and viruses. Among such pests, nematodes (microscopic worms) have been recently observed as a primary threat to all Kharif, and rabi...
Soil moisture is important for various applications e.g. hydrology, agriculture and meteorology. Some of the applications where soil moisture is useful are: Optimal irrigation in farms Identify areas being over-irrigated Improved flood risk estimation Monitor agricultural drought in near real-time Improved weather forecast Analyze the impact of an irrigation project Identify the irrigated area...
Harvesting of crops is one of the essential and crucial practices involved in crop production. Once the crop is matured or fully matured they are cut and collected (Reaping), collectively referred to as harvesting. Harvesting depends on several variables, including seasons, crop varieties, length of crop maturity, etc. The main aim of good harvest...
The performance of agriculture/cultivation can be measured by crop water productivity (CWP). Crop water productivity (kg/m3) is a measure of the quantum of food produced per unit of water consumed. Farmers performance at the site depends on various factors like farming practice, crop type, soil type, weather and available resources like water, power, fertilizer....
Crop yields are a trivial part of any farmer’s life with which he can approximate the profitability of his farmland. At every given opportunity, he tries to maximize the crop yield by adopting new technologies and planting methods. Crop yield varies from farm to farm depending on the efforts taken by farmers to improve...
Agriculture plays a significant role in the Indian economy. Almost 70% of rural people are integrated with agriculture. Agriculture is the most important sector of the Indian economy, as it contributes almost 18.1% of total GDP. In addition, about 43% of India’s geographical area has been engaged in the agricultural sector. Today, real-time, reliable,...
Soil is a conglomeration of solids, liquid and air components. The solids consist of organic matter, minerals and micro-organisms. Liquid mainly comprise the water held between the solids and air comprises gaseous components released by various microbial processes, recycling of nutrients and exchange of gases with atmosphere occurring in the soil medium. Soil forms...
An Application programming interface is an intermediary interface that allows two applications to interact with each other. Here, we adopt API to provide soil moisture (SM), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) as special parameters for a farm monitoring. These components are utilized as a part of the functionality of Satyukt...
MyFarm mobile application, a satellite-based agricultural smartphone application, is mainly developed to help the users for understanding the farm health, providing irrigation advisory as well as dealing with the weather forecast. It is a simple application whereas the user plots his/her farm boundary and the requirements about the farm are provided through the same....
Soil moisture is defined as the water held in the pores of soil and this forms the water reserve available to quench the crop’s water requirement. Rainfall being the primary source of water, fills up the soil reserve which can extend from half meter to one meter in depth from surface or even deeper...