India agriculture, changes in India's agriculture?

How can computer engineers or computer scientists can contribute in agricultural field in India?

  • Agriculture is considered as the backbone of India. How can computer engineers can contribute to this field, or what are the opportunities for the CS engineers in this field which can bring about positive changes in agriculture (software or products).

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    Here is one example of computer science _really_ assisting farmers - eSagu is successfully executed in Andhra Pradesh. This project is led by Dr. P Krishna Reddy whose familial roots are grounded in farming. Recognition and Awards The eSagu system is a finalist for the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008. eSagu project is the winner of "The Manthan Award 2007 - India's Best e-Content for Development". Overall winner of CSI Nihilent e-Governance Award for the year 2006. eSagu has been recognized as one of the worldwide latest novel internet applications in the "Innovative Application Case study 2006" of Institute for Information Industry, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan. For more information check out the following URL: http://esagu.in

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Harit Himanshu

As a social entrepreneur working in this area, I think there is immense potential application of computer engineering in agriculture in India. Sustainable agriculture needs to focus on the environment, the productivity, the risks and the profits. I have shared a list of key potential areas where computer scientists need to focus their research on below. This is my research and I am sure more such areas exist that need urgent attention. Using GIS (Geographic Information System) based visual precision agriculture to use agricultural pesticides and fertilizers more efficiently Using neural networks for improving agricultural processing output (analyzing and predicting mechanical parameters) Using CAD (Computer Aided Design) for improving agricultural equipment design and performance Using hybrid network to build information sharing platforms (e-governance, climate, agricultural practices, expert pools, etc.) Using laser induced imaging for detection of contamination of agricultural products Using sequence alignment in molecular biology to improve crop quality Developing e-commerce (seed sales, produce sale, prices info, etc.) platforms to boost agricultural economy Working towards improvement in low altitude image acquisition systems Optimization of irrigation models using genetic algorithms Developing design for automated sorting systems of farm produce Building GIS and MCE (Multi-Criteria Evaluation) mapping for land quality evaluation Using Support Vector Machine (SVM) technique for soil water content forecasting Using 3S (Remote Sensing, GPS, and GIS) techniques for predicting landforms and climatic changes Building simulation algorithms for optimization of pesticides and fertilizers spray methods Helping development of sustainable wireless monitoring systems (long-range, automatic, etc) Developing spatial distribution maps of soil nutrients Developing geospatial computation grid for digital agricultural experiments Creating crop disease leaf image segmentation using imaging analysis techniques

Anubhav Srivastava

Imagine a software, which can predict the soil fertility of a land after harvesting a particular crop, provided we have the soil fertility information of the land and the crop to be harvested now. You can ask me what good would such a software do? Well if you can predict the fertility of the soil after a particular crop harvest, it lets you decide what's the other crops can be cultivated later and helps decide the best crop rotation policy. This would guarantee the highest yield all the time. Now the question is should this tool be given to the farmers or the scientist? Find more info below... http://agri-soft.blogspot.com/2012/11/could-computer-technology-help-indian.html

Karthik Uthaman

Are there common pathogens in India that damage crops?  Computational biology has become important for discovering genomic signatures for pathogenic bacteria.  Computational biologists are often computer scientists with a biology specialization or the other way around.

Kevin Matzen

My two cents, where we can do something might develop: A language agnostic platform that can be used by illiterates. A platform where farmers can learn something of interest say organic farming A platform for communication between farmers to share best practices, produce rates & to coordinate at a mass level

Sainath Gupta

What Computer Engineers create ? They create softwares and programs so that we humans have to do less effort. Computer Engineers work for our sake. They develop softwares, applications, hardwares, for various businesses and area of research. Here is your answer, agricultural field is also the same. Computer Engineers can program and develop applications, for farmers too. In research work, to develop good and high productive seeds, we need scientists, and for a research you need a lot of technical setup, for which again you need engineers. As it is also mentioned in one of the other answers here, weather forecasts, Soil Consultation and crop prices through SMS's on phones, is also a service provided by the government or other organizations to the farmer, with infrastructures developed by Computer Engineers. I hope you get what i need to convey.

Abhishek Ahlawat

There is always a need of organised information in any field.Traditionally, agriculture in India exploits the information trickling down from generation to generation about various practices. In the due course lot of good science behind it is being lost.Internet can empower peasants to share their knowledge and also gain access to information shared by others.If i am not wrong there is a project in this field by an India from  CMU/Stanford called http://awaz.do that creates a similar knowledge bank for farmers.

Anonymous

Please, check http://www.greenecosystem.in we are a group of software enginners who have recently started this website and are also trying to bring a opensource / crowdsourcing model into agriculture.

Shivdas Gujare

There is already a well known application of Computer Engineering. Farmers in India can get weather forecasts, Soil Consultation and Crop Prices on their phone through SMS.

Abhishek Agarwal

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