Remote Sensing: The practice of evaluating and studying the physical properties of a region by detecting the reflected and emitted radiation from a distance is known as remote sensing (typically from satellite or aircraft). It aids in the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object or...
Introduction Agriculture from time immemorial has always been a gamble with nature and its adversities. Looking back over a decade of severe weather anomalies like flood, drought, superstorms, and pest/disease infestations with impacts on a scale previously unimaginable, there is a pressing need to understand the toll that has been taken. In 2019 alone,...
Agriculture and its challenges: Economic growth and development are heavily dependent on agriculture. It is essential to human existence because it provides food. The sector contributes a great deal to the economy as a supplier of industrial raw materials. It also contributes significantly to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Human survival depends on it, and...
It Does More. It Costs Less. It’s That Simple. Introduction In India, agriculture is the primary source of livelihood. Nearly 60% of India’s population depends on agriculture as their sole source of income. At present, India takes the second position in agricultural production in the world. It also contributes a major share of the...
By Dr. Sat Kumar Tomer and Vijaya Pramathi V. S Farming, especially in developing countries, faces various risks due to climate change, pests and diseases, drought, floods, erratic rains, and so on. The challenges in agrarian countries e.g. India where 263.1 million people, roughly about 60 percent of the population is engaged in agriculture,...
India is poorly prepared to tackle the extreme climate condition. Nearly 70% of a small, and marginal group of farmers in India are frequently exposed to a variety of production risks such as 35-40% crop loss per year, extreme climate hotspots for 75% of districts over India, around 35% of produce under pest disease...
Cultivation of sugarcane in India had been started since Vedic period. Sugarcane is perennial grass cultivated for its juice from which sugar is processed. Most of the World sugarcane is grown in tropical and subtropical areas. India is the second-largest producer of sugar (17.1%) in the world after Brazil. Within India, Uttar Pradesh (36.1%),...
Sat2Farm mobile application, a satellite-based agricultural smartphone application, is primarily focused to help the users for understanding farm health, providing pests advisory, irrigation advisory as well as dealing with the weather forecast. It is a simple application where the user plots his/her farm boundary and the requirements about the farm are provided through the...