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Smart Crop Planning: Al (Artificial Intelligence) based Decision Support System for Crop Diversification

Area: Astronomy & Space Sciences

Innovator: Dr. Rallapalli Srinivas, The Birla Institute of Technology (BITS) Pilani Campus, Rajasthan

Funding agency: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Benefits: The project being undertaken by ISRO in collaboration with academia is directly or indirectly beneficial to the society.

Focus Area: Smart agriculture

Co-PI: Dr. Suresh Kumar, Indian Insitute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Executive Summary: The objective of this project is to generate Geospatial database of farm and farming system at block level / region level and develop Smart Soil Management System for assessing Soil Fertility and Crop Productivtiy potenital using soil sensors and Machine learning. The project also envisaged to develop a cost-effective Smart diversified Crop Planning System using Decision Criterion Method under different cropping seasons and on grouond implementation on a pilot basis.

Timeline Start Year: 2022

Total Budget (INR): 1853000

Implementing Agency: The Birla Institute of Technology (BITS) Pilani, Rajasthan

Source: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)- Department of Space (DOS) 2022-2024

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