DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLE FOR AGRICULTURAL SPRAYING OPERATION
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2019
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DEPARTMENT OF FARM MACHINERY AND POWER ENGINEERING COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, GODHRA
Abstract
India is an agricultural dependent country, as still more than 55% population depends upon it for their livelihood. But, most of the farmers are very poor due to the low income from the agriculture. To enhance the income from agriculture, it is essential to increase the productivity or to bring more land under cultivation, which is limited. Mechanization of field operations is one way to increase productivity as agricultural machinery and implements are capable of doing field operations with precision and in lesser time. Judicious management of all the inputs is essential to increase production, profitability and the sustainability of such a complex system. Thus, precise application of inputs and agricultural operations are needed. Apart from these, Indian agriculture is facing challenges of ever increasing population and day by day shortage of agricultural labour. Thus, time has now arrived to exploit all the modern tools available and agricultural science together to improve economic and environmentally sustainable crop production. The advent of autonomous system architectures gives us the opportunity to develop a new range of flexible agricultural equipment based on small, smart machines that reduces waste, improves economic viability, reduces environmental impact and increases food sustainability.