Design and development of e-farm with S.C.H.E.M.E.
Samruddhi Khandare, Sushopti D. Gawade, Varsha Turkar · 2017 International Conference on Recent Innovations in Signal processing and Embedded Systems (RISE) · 2017
Agriculture in India is eminently prone to danger like natural calamities, droughts, floods, etc. It is very crucial to safeguard the farmers from natural disasters and to safeguard their credit eligibility for the next approaching season. For this objective, the GOI (Government of India) has introduced several agricultural schemes throughout the country for the benefit of the farmers. With the growing technology and internet services the information related to the different government agricultural schemes are now available on internet in the form of websites and mobile apps. But enormous population of farmers in our country are uneducated and do not know how to access or view the information given on the website or in the app due to the language barrier. Thousands of farmers in India are killing themselves on their devastated field. This is not just because the weather gods have been cruel; but it is also because the safety from such climatic hazard, in terms of crop insurance, has failed the farmer when he needed it the most. The suicides of farmers that are being reported across the country undoubtedly indicate that these government schemes have not found enough takers. This is not only because of the language barrier and illiteracy of the farmers; it is also because of the poor usability of the websites which provide different agricultural information including the information of government schemes. So, the motivation of this research is to provide the farmers of our country with easy to use website and mobile app for their benefit so that they can get all the information related to agricultural government schemes.