Design and Development Of Agri-Bot For Automatic Ploughing, Seeding And Watering

Indian economy is based on agriculture. The backbones for food production are farmers. Traditionally farming is done by human being with the help of bullock carts, tractors and tillers etc. In modern era, the main problem in agricultural field include lack of labor availability, lack of knowledge regarding soil testing, increase in labor wages, wastage of seeds and more wastage in water. To overcome this problem we approach designing of agricultural robot for various tasks. Certainly robots are playing an important role in the field of agriculture for farming process autonomously. In agriculture, the opportunity for robot is enhancing the productivity and the robots are appearing in the field in large number.

The proposed system consists of a robotic platform which focuses on implementing all the farming process especially in the field of ploughing and seeding by using microcontroller, DC motors, DC pumps and various sensors etc. in order to identify the parameters like soil moisture, humidity and temperature in the field area. Along with that crop disease detection is done by interfacing camera into our system.

Keywords: Agri-bot, Raspberry Pi, IOT, Crop disease detection, Blynk App.