Automation and Artificial Intelligence: Reorienting Indian Farming towards Smart Agriculture

Abstract

In the Economic Survey of 2019-20, the share of agriculture in GDP was 17.8 percent, which has increased to 19.9 percent in 2020-21. e schemes being run by the Government of India in agriculture have played an important role in this growth, but in 2050, to meet the agricultural challenges related to food security, India will have to implement smart farming techniques on a large scale. ere has been a recent paradigm shi in engineering and technology due to emergence of three innovative technologies: Articial Intelligence, IoT and Blockchain.