Open AccessWater Conservation and Smart Agriculture in India
Author(s) -
Raghav Bansal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of modern trends in science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-3778
DOI - 10.46501/ijmtst061258
Subject(s) - agriculture , business , water conservation , population , capital (architecture) , sustainable agriculture innovation network , conservation agriculture , irrigation , environmental planning , natural resource economics , agricultural economics , geography , economics , sociology , agronomy , demography , archaeology , biology
In India about 70% of population depends upon farming and one third of the nation’s capital comes fromagriculture. Water is one of the most important components used in agriculture. Water is one of the mostfundamental resources required in agriculture. Flooding the field is one of the most common practices of soilirrigation used in India, even though options like sprinklers, drip irrigation, and others are available. Theseissues concerning agriculture have been always hindering the development of the country. The only solutionto this problem is smart agriculture, in essence, by modernizing the current traditional methods of agriculture,it is possible to help develop the nation and society as a whole. Hence, the project aims at making the practiceof agriculture smart by using automation and IoT technologies.