Major challenges in the agriculture in India

Plant health may not be in the news as much as climate change and other environmental issues going on in the world right now, but it can have a much more significant impact on people’s lives than most people realize. Humans have fought plant diseases and pests throughout history to keep desirable plants healthy and productive. The most notable incidence of plant disease failure occurred in Ireland in the 1840s, when a bacterial disease caused the Irish potato harvest to fail repeatedly. Hundreds of thousands of people died due to the famine, which resulted in the migration of around 1.5 million people from Ireland to the United States and Canada. While today’s plant health problems aren’t as severe as the potato famine, they can still have a big influence on food supply and the environment.

Gone are the days’ farmers had to depend on crude tools and guesswork to carry out farming. With the advent of the computer age, application technology tools, sophisticated IT infrastructure and analytics engines, farmers can now make informed decisions concerning their farm operations, and record much more yields than before. Today, farms and agricultural operations are hugely different from the ones a few decades ago due to technological advances such as gadgets, sensors, machinery, and information technology. Climate-smart agriculture may feed millions of more people, make farmers more robust to climate change shocks, and reduce the environmental impact of agriculture.

Technological Interventions in understanding farm health

Surveillance and early detection:

Early detection of disease or other concerns in plants, similar to human health, can make treating the problem easier and faster. Scientists and practitioners all across the world are attempting to use new and existing technology to monitor plant health. These technologies range from video imaging to artificial intelligence. They are used to aid in detecting problems at an early stage so that they can be resolved swiftly and effectively before they spread and cause extensive damage. Many of these technologies are connected to smartphones, allowing farmers and other specialists to make better judgments in the field or on the go instead of waiting for laboratory results.

Precision agriculture/ Precision farming:

Another way technology can help reduce the number of chemical products required is by improving the accuracy and precision with which plant health products are applied. Non-chemical approaches, like precision hoeing with vision systems, can also be developed to achieve equal or superior outcomes.

To easily access and visualize this kind of data over any farm on the globe, Satyukt Analytics has developed a mobile app called Sat2Farm. The data availability at all times for each of the farmers at their fingertips certainly strengthens the decision-making process.

With our Soil testing report, Soil Moisture Map (SMM), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), and Weather Data (RD) and much more, you get expert information on key performance indices that determine the overall success of the farming operations. 

• Satellite based soil testing/ analysis provides the information about major soil nutrients (NPK), soil organic carbon (OC) and soil pH. It enables the farmers to take up measures to improve soil nutrient health before the crop production.

• SMM equips with information on the surface soil moisture of the farm. This enables farmers with information such as, areas of the farm undergoing water stress and the areas to concentrate the irrigation efforts. 

• NDVI enables us to know the health viability of the crops on the farm. This functionality is helpful because it will help you take corrective measures early enough to forestall negative eventualities such as stunted growth and poor yield.
• Weather data gives you access to 14 days of rainfall chances, temperature variation, relative humidity and so on. Armed with this knowledge, farm operations such as sowing, chemical spraying, fertilizer application and others can be performed without much hassle.
• Multiple Farm Locations: The Sat2Farm app has the special feature to add more than one farm. You can add more than one farm at different locations and manage them all from one app.
• Agriculture Data: Unlike the ages past when farmers had limited access to plant protection information and production practices in near real time, this app provides scientific packages of practices, crop protection information in near real time and helps in reducing the chemical residue and input cost.
• Pest Disease diagnosis: This app provides you with an early warning system to better manage the pest/disease outbreak and reduce the negative externalities.
• Agriculture advisory: You can leverage the knowledge and experience of our agriculture technical experts and professionals through your use of the Sat2Farm mobile App.

Other Benefits include

• Conserve water by using the exact amount required to irrigate your crops
• Monitor the health of your crops routinely and remotely without extra labor and hassles
• Get forewarning on extreme weather events and pest/disease attacks.
• The app supports multiple languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada.

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