Project Brief

Building a solution for Large Farm management for Mono Crop Farms to increase the yield and optimize the labor productivity.

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What are commercial/cash crops?

Cash crops or commercial crops are the ones that are cultivated to be sold in the market to earn profits from their sale. Most of the crops grown today worldwide are cash crops cultivated for selling in the national and international markets e.g. cotton, sugarcane, jute, oil seeds, tea, tobacco, etc

Objectives of farm management?

● Increasing the total farm income as a whole

● Improving the standard of living of the farmer

● Effective recycling of farm products and by-products

● Sustaining the productivity levels and soil health

● Increasing the employment opportunities

What is farm management?

Farm management is the study of the ways and means of organizing land, labor, capital, application of technical knowledge and skill in order that the farm may get maximum yield and net return The main objective of farm management is to obtain the maximum net profit from the various enterprises of a farm.

What Is Mono-culture Farming?

Mono-culture farming is a form of agriculture that is based on growing only one type of a crop at one time on a specific field.

What is the role of Farm manager?

Individuals who opt for a career as farm managers are responsible for monitoring and sustaining a farm, Farm managers will oversee the fertilization, planting, watering, cultivation and harvesting of crops on a crop farm.

Agriculture farming in Maharashtra

Agriculture is the backbone of the state maharashtra. Maharashtra economy is predominantly agricultural. It is the main occupation of the people. Both cash crops and food crops are grown in Maharashtra state.

What are large commercial farms called?

Commercial farming is a type of farming that uses higher doses of modern inputs to achieve higher productivity, like high-yielding variety seeds, chemical fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides. A plantation is a form of commercial farming where a single crop is cultivated in a wide area.

Why smart farm management?

The ring demand in food production has made managing large farms inevitable to feed the ever-growing global population. Bigger farm sizes could mean huge quantities of farm inputs, higher investments, large amounts of data, and greater possibilities of crop failure. Implementing smart farm management strategies can help to proactively optimize large farm operations and drive maximum returns for agribusiness. Monitoring and managing the farm conditions of large-sized fields could take up a lot of the farmers' time and efforts making it eminent for farmers to incorporate loT-based farming to augment their farm activities remotely.

Commercial crops grown in Maharashtra

Principal crops grown in the State are rice, jowar, bajra, wheat, tur, mung, urad, gram and other pulses. The State is a major producer of oilseeds. Groundnut, sunflower, and soybean are the major oil seed crops. The important cash crops are cotton, sugarcane, turmeric and vegetables.

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