Adoption of Novel Technologies to Boost Precision Agriculture (BPA) using Internet of Things (IOT)

Abstract

Precision Farming (PF) or Precision Agriculture (PA) is a management of farming that uses modern technology to ensure that the soil gets what it needs to remain crop healthy for producing good productivity. Precision agriculture uses various ICT technologies such as Sensors, Actuators, GIS software, GPS, Variable Rate Technology, Robotics, Drone and other aerial imagery. Agriculture is important to our country’s economic structure since it provides food, raw resources, and job opportunities to a big portion of the people. Previously farmers use the traditional approaches to cultivate the crops like without use of technological advancement for cultivating the crops, that reduces the farmers yield and profit. Now a day the farmers are coming forward to convert their farms from conventional approach to smart approach by using modern technologies. By using modern technological equipments, the farmers can monitor the crop cultivation and reduce the wastage of excess amount of input to the farms. With the help of drones we can know the status of the growth and condition of the crop which is cultivated in the farm filed, it reduces the human interventions. This paper discusses about the modern technologies based on Precision methodology, components involves in IOT with sensors, field in which the Precision farming is applied, where the Internet of Things used by precision agriculture and difficulties faced by farmers.