Agriculture University to design AI enabled App to provide solutions for smart farming
Today AI is emerging in almost every field offering innovative solutions and making the world a better place to live in. Keeping in mind the difficulty of farmers, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur has designed an AI enabled app for providing solutions for various agricultural problems and helping farmers to initiate smart farming.This is a joint venture of IGKV and NIC and the app has been named as Crop Doctor 2.0.
The Inspiration Behind
Farmers usually confront a variety of problems during farming ranging from getting good quality seeds, use of proper manures and irrigation facilities ,removal of weeds to harvesting and storage of crop. Many times they are unable to get an expert advice on time and this suffer a lot. Crop doctor 2.0 is a complete farming solution application powered by AI which will provide information to farmers at one click.
Working of App
A dedicated team of IGKV including Dr Ravi Saxena , C Abhijeet Kaushik ,Kalpana Banjare, Sandeep Khateek, Jitendra Chandrakar and Rakesh Pal has developed the app Crop Doctor 2.0. First the farmers have to download the app from Play Store and login the app after signing up. They will have to click the photo of the problem and then upload it in the app. As soon as the photo is uploaded, the app will recognise the problem using AI. It will then share the detailed information about the problem and suggest remedies for it. The problem will be shared with experts also. The experts will then share their advice with the farmers.
Benefits of Using the App
Crop Doctor 2.0 is an app equipped with AI ,machine learning, cloud computing, internet of things, expert system, data analysis ,mobile application and exclusive features like online marketing platform. The farmers cannot only get an expert advise about farm insects, choosing right kind of medicines and information about new technology but they will also get valuable tips by the scientists to improve the crops sitting at the home. The students of Agriculture University will also get expert advice from this app which will enhance their learning greatly. The app is providing solutions with 99% accuracy.
Machine learning and AI has been increasing its importance day by day and the use of AI in agriculture can prove to be a boon for humanity as agriculture is the basis for survival of human race.
