India Mobile Congress is the largest digital technology forum was held virtually from 8-10 th Dec. During which under the CSR initiative the Vodafone-Idea along with Nokia’s Worldwide IOT Network Grid (WING) were working on the smart agriculture solution project in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra region by enhancing their productivity and income. So in this blog we gone a study about this project.
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Highlights:
* What is CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)?
* What is Smart Agriculture (Farming)? Need of Smart agriculture
* About the Project : Benefits ,Working
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Concept:
The companies or the organization will work in the society
in turn they work for the welfare of the society. The Corporate Social
Responsibility is a management concept whereby companies integrate social and
environmental concerns in their business operations and interactions with their
stakeholders. Through CSR companies give back to the community, they take part
in philanthropic causes, and provide positive social value. They try to build a
positive brand around their company. Companies should spend at least 2 percent
of their average net profits made in the preceding three years on the CSR.
Smart Agriculture (Farming):
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With growing technology application and the need of modern agriculture the concept of precision farming/ smart agriculture is taking much importance. Smart agriculture is an emerging concept that refers to managing farms using modern information and communication technologies to help to increase the quantity and quality of the products while optimizing the human labour required. The Internet of things used in the smart agriculture were the way to better measure and control growth factors, like irrigation and fertilizers etc.
Need of Smart Agriculture:
As we knew that there is a rapid growth in world population
along with that food consumption worldwide also growing rapidly. The rapid expansion
in food production to cater to the growing demand is not an easy task. Smart agriculture
is the integration of the of advanced technologies into the existing practices
in order to boost production quality and efficiency for farming products .It’s
a system that optimizes and examines how high-tech farming can aid the production output as well as
focuses on the preservation of resources. Smart agriculture can address the
issues of population growth, climate change and labour that has gained a lot of
technological attention starting from planting and watering of crops to health
and harvesting of the crops.
Among the technologies available for present day farmers were:
1. Sensors: For soil,
water, light, humidity, temperature management.
2. Software’s: There were specialized software solutions
that target specific farm types or use of IOT platforms
3. Connectivity: Through cellular, LoRa etc.
4. Locations: GPS,
Satellite etc.
5. Robotics: Processing Facilities, Autonomous tractors etc.
6. Data analytics: Standalone analytics solutions, data
pipelines for downstream solutions etc.
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Smart Agriculture Solutions Project:
This pilot project has been implemented across the 100
locations in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, aims to benefit over 50,000 farmers
in the regions by enhancing the farmers productivity and income. This project aims
to enhancement of livelihoods of small farmers through sustainable farming approaches,
deployment of IOT solutions and by improving their access to information using
technology
Working of the project and Benefits to the Farmers:
*Under this project companies going to develop smart
agriculture app.
* Over 400 sensors were deployed in around 100000 hectares
of land in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh farm lands to collect various data
points which were analyzed by localized, cloud based smart agriculture app
developed in the project.
* The smart agriculture app will support the local language
support along with weather forecasting and irrigation management information to
the farmers.
* This project is a unique effort of brining an entire
ecosystem of stakeholders such as Nokia for its innovative technology,
Solidaridad for project management, and also green experts and researchers from
various universities – all under one roof, to positively impact the lives of
farmers in India.
* Climate change, land scarcity, among others remain always
the hurdle in the way of enhancing farmer’s productivity. For these factors more
importance was given under this project.
* The technologies will play key role in enhancing the farm
yield and easing these challenges of the agriculture sectors by delivering
relevant information’s and advices to farmers like weather forecast, soil quality and plant growing
cycles .
The cooperation among the Nokia WING and Vi-CSR Is an
innovative example of rebalancing the needs of the society and the environment
by introducing sustainable farming practices in India.
(Content sources: ET.Telecom.com, iotforall.com)
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