Smart Cultivation

Dr. A. Sheela, Ms. K. Kavinmullai, N. Bhuvanesh, S. Karthikeyan, N. Mohamed salmaan

Abstract


The proposed project is about a serious issue in today’s world that is insufficient food production, which prevails in many parts of the world. Farming plays an important role in food production and economic development in India and in the world as a whole. Getting high yield from the available land depends on fertility, moisture content of the soil and other climatic factors. The proposed work helps to overcome this problem, which aims at developing an automatic fertilizer-irrigation control and management system. It improves soil porosity and nutrient content through periodic application of required amount of fertilizers and water for crop’s growth. This will metabolize the soil texture, give nutrients to the crops, build plant tissues as well as increase the rate of crop productivity. The implementation of the work is achieved by sensors which include potassium sensor, nitrogen sensor, humidity sensor and temperature sensor, applying Intelligence technique by using Arduino nano to control the valve of the irrigation system. The system automatically applies soluble agrochemical fertilizers and water based on plant needs, as a result of which productivity is increased to considerable amount to meet out increasing needs.


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