Intervention Of Artificial Intelligence In Agriculture: Role, Application And Status

Agriculture is nearly a $3 trillion industry and the issues, like increasing population trend, climate change, area reduction in cultivation, food security have propelled agriculturists for searching for innovative approaches to protect and improve crop yield in order to mitigate poverty and hunger. The interventions of artificial intelligence (AI) and its increasing applications have transformed the whole agriculture into soft computing agriculture, which has opened the prospects of yielding healthier crops, control pests, monitor soil and growing conditions, organize data for farmers, assist in the workload and improve a wide range of agriculture-related tasks in the entire food supply chain. Currently, applications of artificial intelligence are becoming policy issues as it provides an understanding of current and emerging trends in agriculture to the business leaders and now playing an imperative role in cutting the agriculture cost with guaranteed efficiency. The present article provides glimpses on the role and application of AI in agriculture with special reference to crop science.