Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology ( MAKAUT ), WB has decided to help the farmers in their relentless effort of food ...
Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), WB has decided to help the farmers in their relentless effort of food production. It has initiated a Centre for Precision Farming. The main objectives of the Centre will be: Disease Identification, Disease Prediction and Weather Forecasting
The
University is dedicated towards educating the farmers of West Bengal and
across India about the benefits of precision farming and wants to give them an
idea of the future technology in agriculture. MAKAUT is
always ready to help the farmers of our country to solve their crop related
problems. The Centre will have the facility of identification of crop
diseases through a software and take necessary steps accordingly. Again the
Centre will help the farmers in disease prediction. As regards weather forecasting,
the new technology of precision farming gives importance to micro climate, that
is, the weather in a particular area, so that the farmers can get a lot of
benefits and produce crops accordingly.
Precision
Farming is a strategy that gathers, processes and analyzes temporal, spatial
and individual data and combines it with other information for improved
resource use efficiency, enhancing productivity, quality, profitability and
sustainability of agricultural production. This information and
technology-based system identifies, analyses and manages variability in fields
by conducting right crop production practices at the right place and time and
in the right way, for optimum profitability, sustainability and protection of
the land resource. Fertility of land resource is nowadays depleted due to
random application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Only a
portion of farmers have practised any type of Precision Farming technology to
re-organise the total system of agriculture towards low-input, high-efficiency
and sustainable farming.
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