IoT System for Crop Recommendation Based on Soil and Weather Patterns

Abstract

Indian agriculture industry gives a significant rise to GDP and provides food and livelihood to a large portion of the whole global population. This demand is increasing rapidly by population growth; the world's population is projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. It shoots up pressure on farmers to uplift production and grow crops that are better suited to their local weather and soil conditions. Traditional methods of crop recommendation are often based on subjective assessments and can be inaccurate. However, to overcome these challenges, new technologies like IoT can help farmers to make better decisions and growth of the crop towards holistic rural development. IoT makes it possible to take better decisions on run time and interactively by combining the previous data, past experience of farmers, scientific methodologies, feedback, soil health, weather forecasting, etc. So, in this chapter the use of the IoT and sensors have been discussed with practicality to adopt IoT easily and effectively in the agriculture field.