Development of mobile based agriculture scheduling system for farmers in regional language (Punjabi) using weather conditions
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2016
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
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In Indian agriculture, farming activities like sowing, harvesting and irrigation plays very important role in productivity. These activities must be performed in suitable manner and most importantly at appropriate time in order to get good yield. But sadly most of the farmers are unaware about the impact of these activities on yield of their crop. So application is developed to educate farmers about it. The developed software application is basically for dissemination of information to farmers about the proper way of performing various farming activities in regional language Punjabi, of two main crops of Punjab- wheat and paddy. This application will assists farmers in performing these activities in proper manner and help them in improving their productivity of crops. Based on date of sowing, farmers will get notifications about farming activities. Additional advice will be provided along with the notification on the basis of weather conditions. This system is an android based application developed in regional language Punjabi for overcoming lingual barrier of farmers. The application is developed using Android Studio which is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing an Android application.
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Farming Activities, Indian Agriculture, software application-agriculture