scholarly journals KrishiMitra: Innovative and Sustainable Approach Towards Site Specific Agriculture

Author(s):  
Tarannum Sayyad ◽  
Shweta Poojari ◽  
Ritvika Pawar ◽  
Samrudhi Shinde ◽  
Supriya Magar

In recent years, there has been a significant development in precision agriculture. Technological advancements made in monitoring, supervision, management, and control framework have opened another period in which numerous conventional agrarian practices are outdated. Automated aerial vehicles end up being one of these methods and are broadly utilized across industries as more organizations begin to perceive its potential uses and scale of global reach. This research paper proposes the prototype of using a smart hexacopter for spraying the pesticides. It discusses the hardware and software application process, the flight of the drone is remotely controlled via an Android application which also includes a GPS Navigation System. This application allows the operator to select the points of the field through a map and thereby the hexacopter takes off then hovers and ultimately sprays the fertilizers on the destination location.

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 753 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Cook ◽  
R. G. V. Bramley

Summary. Precision agriculture is the term given to crop management methods which recognise and manage within-paddock spatial and temporal variations in the soil–plant–atmosphere system. This paper reviews the principles, practice and perceived benefits of precision agriculture. The objective of precision agriculture is to improve the control of input variables such as fertiliser, seed, chemicals or water with respect to the desired outcomes of increased profitability, reduced environmental risk or better product quality. The practice can be viewed as comprising 4 stages: information acquisition; interpretation; evaluation; and control. Much of the technology to acquire information and control machinery is available or at a late stage of development. However, methods of interpretation are less well developed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Lodge

Pittenweem Priory began life as the caput manor of a daughter-house established on May Island by Cluniac monks from Reading (c. 1140). After its sale to St Andrews (c. 1280), the priory transferred ashore. While retaining its traditional name, the ‘Priory of May (alias Pittenweem)’ was subsumed within the Augustinian priory of St Andrews. Its prior was elected from among the canons of the new mother house, but it was many decades before a resident community of canons was set up in Pittenweem. The traditional view, based principally on the ‘non-conventual’ status of the priory reiterated in fifteenth-century documents, is that there was ‘no resident community’ before the priorship of Andrew Forman (1495–1515). Archaeological evidence in Pittenweem, however, indicates that James Kennedy had embarked on significant development of the priory fifty years earlier. This suggests that, when the term ‘non-conventual’ is used in documents emanating from Kennedy's successors (Graham and Scheves), we should interpret it more as an assertion of superiority and control than as a description of realities in the priory.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Ahmed S. Khusheef

 A quadrotor is a four-rotor aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing, hovering, forward flight, and having great maneuverability. Its platform can be made in a small size make it convenient for indoor applications as well as for outdoor uses. In model there are four input forces that are essentially the thrust provided by each propeller attached to each motor with a fixed angle. The quadrotor is basically considered an unstable system because of the aerodynamic effects; consequently, a close-loop control system is required to achieve stability and autonomy. Such system must enable the quadrotor to reach the desired attitude as fast as possible without any steady state error. In this paper, an optimal controller is designed based on a Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) control method to obtain stability in flying the quadrotor. The dynamic model of this vehicle will be also explained by using Euler-Newton method. The mechanical design was performed along with the design of the controlling algorithm. Matlab Simulink was used to test and analyze the performance of the proposed control strategy. The experimental results on the quadrotor demonstrated the effectiveness of the methodology used.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (15) ◽  
pp. 8139
Author(s):  
Tomoko Tadokoro ◽  
Asahiro Morishita ◽  
Tsutomu Masaki

Remarkable progress has been made in the treatment and control of hepatitis B and C viral infections. However, fundamental treatments for diseases in which liver fibrosis is a key factor, such as cirrhosis, alcoholic/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, and primary sclerosing cholangitis, are still under development and remain an unmet medical need. To solve this problem, it is essential to elucidate the pathogenesis of liver fibrosis in detail from a molecular and cellular perspective and to develop targeted therapeutic agents based on this information. Recently, microRNAs (miRNAs), functional RNAs of 22 nucleotides, have been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of liver fibrosis. In addition, extracellular vesicles called “exosomes” have been attracting attention, and research is being conducted to establish noninvasive and extremely sensitive biomarkers using miRNAs in exosomes. In this review, we summarize miRNAs directly involved in liver fibrosis, miRNAs associated with diseases leading to liver fibrosis, and miRNAs related to complications of cirrhosis. We will also discuss the efficacy of each miRNA as a biomarker of liver fibrosis and pathology, and its potential application as a therapeutic agent.


1984 ◽  
Vol 22 (16) ◽  
pp. 64-64

A CHART – Most of the points made in our article are also summarised in an information chart “Coping with Diarrhoea”, produced last year by the Ross Institute. It is intended as a teaching tool for professional health workers involved in the clinical management of diarrhoea, and gives basic information on clinical presentation, treatment, epidemiology and control of the most common agents of diarrhoea. A second chart summarises scientific knowledge of the major infectious agents of diarrhoea, and is intended for reference. The charts can be obtained from Miss S. O’Driscoll, Ross Institute, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT (cost £1 for the first and £2 for the second chart).


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Novita Anggestia ◽  
Triani Ratnawuri ◽  
Meyta Pritandhari

  Learning media is one of the needs that must be fulfilled in the learning process. The results of the pre-survey of learning media used in the Aliyah Ma'arif 9 Kotagajah Madrasah, researchers found several problems, namely the use of learning media that were less innovative in learning and the limitation of images in teaching books, worksheets and powerpoints so that students were not attracting attention in the learning process . So that learning media are needed that can attract the attention of students such as android applications, android application software assisted ispring suite as an economic learning media arranged concisely, clearly, and made in a practical form so that students are more interested and enthusiastic in learning and can understand the material. The development model used in this development is the ADDIE development model which consists of several stages, namely (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation). Based on the results of the development of android applications assisted by software ispring suite as an economic learning media it is known the results of recapitulation of data that have been carried out by learning media material experts on android applications with an average score of 86% included in the very feasible category and declared valid, the results of recapitulation from media experts with scores on average 87% fall into the category of very decent and declared valid. Furthermore, the practicality test by IPS X grade 1 students of Aliyah Ma'arif 9 Kotagajah gets an average score of 92.2% and falls into the very practical category so that it is declared practical. research shows that economic learning media using this android application is suitable for use in learning. Thus it can be concluded that the learning media of android applications are learning media that are valid and practical to be used in the learning process.


Author(s):  
Rutvik Solanki

Abstract: Technological advancements such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are helping to boost the global agricultural sector as it is expected to grow by around seventy percent in the next two decades. There are sensor-based systems in place to keep track of the plants and the surrounding environment. This technology allows farmers to watch and control farm operations from afar, but it has a few limitations. For farmers, these technologies are prohibitively expensive and demand a high level of technological competence. Besides, Climate change has a significant impact on crops because increased temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns increase the likelihood of disease outbreaks, resulting in crop losses and potentially irreversible plant destruction. Because of recent advancements in IoT and Cloud Computing, new applications built on highly innovative and scalable service platforms are now being developed. The use of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions has enormous promise for improving the quality and safety of agricultural products. Precision farming's telemonitoring system relies heavily on Internet of Things (IoT) platforms; therefore, this article quickly reviews the most common IoT platforms used in precision agriculture, highlighting both their key benefits and drawbacks


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 819-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurelie M. Poncet ◽  
John P. Fulton ◽  
Timothy P. McDonald ◽  
Thorsten Knappenberger ◽  
Joey N. Shaw ◽  
...  

Abstract. Optimization of planter performance such as uniform seeding depth is required to maximize crop yield potential. Typically, seeding depth is manually adjusted prior to planting by selecting a row-unit depth and a row-unit downforce to ensure proper seed-soil contact. Once set, row-unit depth and downforce are usually not adjusted again for a field although soil conditions may vary. Optimization of planter performance requires automated adjustments of planter settings to varying soil conditions, but development of precision technologies with such capabilities requires a better understanding of soil-planter interactions. The objective of this study was to evaluate seeding depth response to varying soil conditions between and within fields and to discuss implications for development and implementation of active planting technologies. A 6-row John Deere MaxEmerge Plus planter equipped with heavy-duty downforce springs was used to plant corn ( L.) in central Alabama during the 2014 and 2015 growing seasons. Three depths (4.4, 7.0, and 9.5 cm) and three downforces (corresponding to an additional row-unit weight of 0.0, 1.1, and 1.8 kN) were selected to represent common practices. Depth and downforce were not readjusted between fields and growing seasons. Seeding depth was measured after emergence. Corn seeding depth significantly varied with heterogeneous soil conditions between and within fields and the planter failed to achieve uniform seeding depth across a field. Differences in corn seeding depth between fields and growing seasons were as high as 2.1 cm for a given depth and downforce combination. Corn seeding depth significantly co-varied with field elevation but not with volumetric soil water content. Seeding depth varied with elevation at a rate ranging from -0.1 cm/m to -0.6 cm/m. Seeding depth co-variation to field elevation account for some but not all site-specific seeding depth variability identified within each field trial. These findings provide a better understanding of site-specific seeding depth variability and issues to address for the development of site-specific planting technologies to control seeding depth accuracy and improve uniformity. Keywords: Depth control, Downforce, Planter, Precision agriculture, Seeding depth, Uniformity.


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