Precision Agriculture

ABOUT THE COURSE: Precision agriculture stands for the technology which supports the application of precise and exact amount of inputs like fertilizer, water, pesticides etc. to the actual place of crop requirement, at the correct time ensuring better crop productivity and maximizing crop yield and profits. The supporting technologies, such as GIS, GPS, Remote Sensing, Site specific management zones, VRT, Green seeker, Yield monitor, Drone, Sensors and WSN etc. enables proper adoption of precision agriculture. Though the rate of adoption of precision agriculture technology is somewhat slow in developing countries, but they are catching up now-a-days. The course will cover major technologies involved in precision agriculture in terms of tutorials, practical worksheets, field images and videos. Students and professional completing the course will be able to spread as well as enrich the technology through their research and extension activities.INTENDED AUDIENCE: Student in the Discipline of Agricultural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geo-InformaticsINDUSTRY SUPPORT: Inside FPV, AVPLAbsolute, AgNext, DaHaat, CropIn, AgroStar etc.

Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction to Precision Agriculture (PA) and GPS Receiver
Week 2:GIS System and applications
Week 3:Hands-on with QGIS/ GPS receiver with real field examples
Week 4:Remote sensing (RS) application, SNAP and vegetation indices
Week 5:Crop scouting and site-specific management zone, Variable rate technology (VRT), Decision support system (DSS) for Precision nutrient and Irrigation Management
Week 6:Introduction to artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine learning (ML), Advanced concept of GIS
Week 7:Modern equipment: Green seeker, SPAD 502, Yield monitor and yield map analysis, Drone
Week 8:Modern equipment: Laser leveller, Wireless sensor network, IOT, Farm robots