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    NEW AGE OF

    ARTIFICIAL
    INTELLIGENCE
    (AI) IN AGRO-HORTICULTURAL
    SECTORS
    Pragti Negi1, Priya Rawat2, Anil Panwar3
    1
    Assistant Professor
    2
    Assistant Professor
    3
    Program Incharge Cum Assistant Professor
    Department of Agriculture, Sardar Bhagwan Singh University, Balawala Dehradun

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    Introduction:
    In 1955, John McCarthy coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" and suggested carrying out
    research based on the idea that "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence
    may in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to imitate it." These
    days, artificial intelligence (AI), one of the main fields of computer science, has spread to many
    industries, including manufacturing, education, healthcare, agriculture, and finance. This is
    because AI is intended to address issues that humans are not very good at resolving.

    Relevance of AI
    in Agriculture:
    ӆ Weather predictions, monitoring agricultural sustainability, and identifying diseases, pests
    and undernourished plants are done by artificial intelligence-enabled systems with the help
    of satellites and drones, as well as data such as temperature, precipitation, wind speed, and
    sun radiation.

    ӆ Farmers who have Wi-Fi connectivity can use AI apps to get a continually tailored plan for
    their farms, they can also benefit from a constant AI-based support system. By utilizing
    data from IoT and AI-driven technologies, farmers will be able to meet the increased
    demand for food in a responsible manner without depleting priceless natural resources.
    There are several variables associated with climate, including heat, precipitation, wind, and
    solar radiation.

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    Advantages of AI in
    Horticultural Sector
    ӆ Aside from enhancing production, adjustments utilizing automated machine
    harvesting, and selling essential crops adjustments to forecast the weather,
    with AI, AI also checks for defective crops identify diseases and pests, improve crop
    and enhances agro-based businesses' management practices, resolve climate-
    efficiency. related challenges faced by farmers, pest
    infestations and weed infestations that
    ӆ It also strengthens agro-based reduce yield, and it would not eliminate
    businesses' ability to operate more jobs for farmers; instead, it will make
    efficiently through automated machine their processes more efficient.

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    Indian Government and ICAR
    Initiatives on AI and Job
    Opportunities-
    1. The Indian government is working climate data of 30 years. Through this app,
    persistently to make a strong growth farmers get to know information about
    ecosystem that ensures a fit development the sowing time even in their regional
    of AI in India and its applications in languages like Kannada and Telugu.
    several sectors. Some of the ambitious 5. Government of Andhra Pradesh has
    initiatives are given as established a pilot study, known as
    2. NITI Aayog and IBM (International HARITA PRIYA (precision Technology
    Business Machines Corporation) for Agriculture) to admit cutting-edge
    have contracted together for precision sensor based technologies for real time
    agriculture using AI technology. They are accession of the micro-climate data of
    evolving prediction models with inbuilt the farmer’s field. The key institutions
    AI to provide real-time consulting to the that are involved in this study are- Centre
    farmers. This includes data for improving for Develoment of Advanced Computing
    crop productivity, soil yield, regulation (C-DAC), Hyderabad, Central Institute
    of agricultural inputs, accurate weather for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA),
    forecasts, and early warning systems International Crop Research Institute for
    to prevent pest/disease outbreaks. This Semi- Arid Tropics and ANGRAU.
    pilot project is being accomplished in
    ten aspirational districts of the states
    like Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya
    Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and
    Uttar Pradesh.
    3. Another collaboration has been
    done between Microsoft and United
    Phosphorus Limited (UPL), one of the
    largest producers of agrochemicals, in
    developing the Pest Risk Prediction App,
    which relies on AI and machine learning
    to stipulate the pest attack incidence
    that is presently used in states like
    Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana,
    Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh.
    4. Microsoft has also partnered with
    ICRISAT, under the Bhoochetna Project,
    and developed an AI-based Sowing
    app that utilizes machine learning and
    business intelligence. It has been used
    in Andhra Pradesh to calculate the crop
    sowing period by analyzing the historic

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    ICAR Initiatives-
    Established a Model Using AgriDaksh, an ontology based expert system
    Machine Learning/ Soft Computing tool has been developed by ICAR- IASRI for
    Techniques- the crops like Maize, Rapeseed- Mustard,
    ICAR in collaboration with IASRI has come up Tobacco and other Solanaceous crops. ICAR-
    with various techniques like artificial neural IRRI has established rice expert system for
    networks (ANN), Genetic algorithms, Fuzzy the regulation of insects- pests and diseases
    systems, Support vector machines (SVM), in rice crop.
    and Rough sets etc. The neural networks uses
    weather parameters and forecasts a data for Use of AI in Bioinformatics-
    rice yield. The database and prediction server that
    utilizes the genome/proteome sequences
    IoT, Expert Systems and Knowledge using machine leraning algorithm has
    been developed by Centre for Agriculture
    Management- Bioinformatics (CAbin) at ICAR- IASRI, New
    ICAR- CTCRI, Thiruvananthapuram has
    Delhi. The various SSR developed includes-
    come up together to develop an electronic
    BuffSat for Buffalo, PipeMicroDB for Pigeon
    crop (E-crop) solution based on IoT.
    pea, TomSatDB for tomato, SBMDB for
    Along with this, they have also developed
    Sugarbeet etc.
    Sree Visakham Cassava Expert System.

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    AI Startups in India-
    Startups using artificial intelligence (AI) ӆ RML AgTech: RML AgTech offers
    to solve regionally specific agricultural farm management and precision
    problems have becoming more prevalent in agricultural solutions powered by AI.
    India. Here are a few prominent Indian AI Their platform uses AI algorithms to
    agriculture startups: deliver farmers and agribusinesses
    ӆ AgNext: AgNext creates AI-driven individualized advice. Services including
    products for agricultural traceability weather forecasting, crop advise, and soil
    and quality evaluation. Their technology testing are available.
    helps farmers and food processors ӆ Fasal: Fasal provides farmers with
    maintain the quality and safety of their an AI-powered platform for crop
    products through assessing the quality monitoring and advice. Their technology
    of agricultural commodities including helps farmers make data-driven decisions
    grains, fruits, and vegetables using and maximize yields by providing real-
    spectroscopic and machine learning. time insights into crop health, water
    ӆ AgriBazaar: AgriBazaar is an AI- stress, and pest infestations using sensors
    powered agricultural marketplace and weather data.
    that links farmers with agricultural
    commodities buyers and sellers. Their
    platform helps farmers access better
    markets and pricing for their goods by
    facilitating transparent and efficient
    trading via the use of data analytics and
    machine learning.
    ӆ CropIn: CropIn offers a digital
    farming platform powered by AI and
    data analytics. Their platform provides
    farmers with insights into crop planning,
    monitoring, and management, using
    satellite imagery, weather data, and field-
    level observations. CropIn's technology
    helps farmers optimize resource usage
    and improve productivity.

    Conclusion
    AI has been regarded as one of the most feasible solution to those problems and has been
    developed and improved for years by scientists worldwide prospect in this field. Agriculture is
    undergoing an evolution because of the use of AI. It is enabling more intelligent and effective
    farming techniques, which are crucial for tackling the issues of the 21st century.

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