ICT Enabled Proposed Solutions for Soil Fertility Management in Indian Agriculture
An intensive implementation of Information and Communication Technologies is highly required for greater beneficiary in agriculture. To achieve this in a sustainable way, implementation of ICT-based technology in precision farming at the earliest is requi
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Abstract An intensive implementation of Information and Communication Technologies is highly required for greater beneficiary in agriculture. To achieve this in a sustainable way, implementation of ICT-based technology in precision farming at the earliest is required. More specifically, Indian farming requires efficient usage of fertilizer recommendations for each crop type at time intervals during the harvesting period. India needs to go mature in taking agriculture technology a bit further by using technologies like Multi-model decision support system, GPS (Global Positioning System), GIS (Geographic Information System) Cloud, Spatial data analytics, and various other technological wonders. This paper proposes a best available edge cutting and benefiting ICT initiatives by using cloud-based web GIS, Mobile, and Kiosk in fertilizer recommendations for precision farming and primarily aiming at the soil health in Indian agriculture. Keywords ICT recommendations
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1 Introduction Soil Fertility management plays an important role in precision farming. The soil testing is used for estimating the fertility status of the soil and soil health. Presently, the available Indian soil testing laboratories are facilitating the nutrient values based on the soil samples collected from the farmers cropped land. This soil testing report is used to recommend the fertilizers required for the harvesting. Improper usage of fertilizers in farming is leading to environmental pollution and large yield gap that B.G. Premasudha ⋅ H.U. Leena (✉) Department of Master of Computer Application, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur 572 103, Karnataka, India e-mail: [email protected] B.G. Premasudha e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017 S.C. Satapathy et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering and Communication Technology, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 469, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1678-3_72
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still exists across India for major crops [1]. To overcome this, a complete and effective decision support system is highly required for a balanced fertilizer recommendation system. At present, Government of India has taken several measures to overcome consequences in agricultural industry such as setting up STL (Soil Test Laboratories), fertilizer recommendations, issue of Soil Health Card in many states. Multiple measures and inventions are undergone in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in Indian agriculture as such introduction of NAT (New Agricultural Technology), largely recognized as HYV (High Yielding Varieties)—fertilizers [2]. A cloud-based web GIS (Geographical Information System) for fertilizer recommendations using DSS (Decision Support System) DSS for fertilizer recommendations are predominantly essential for India because an enormous amount of overseas trade is depleted each year on fertilizers [3]. DSS assists in providing information on fer
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