Implementation of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things (IoT) in revolutionizing Agriculture: A review on recent trends and challenges

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can revolutionize agriculture which impacts a country’s economy, employing more than 30% of the world’s population directly or indirectly. It can fulfill the needs of an ever-growing world’s population through automation. Traditional farmland practices like weeding, pesticide spraying, irrigation, monitoring soil nutritional and moisture status, etc. can be performed quicker using robots, sensors, drones, and algorithms. It reduces water wastage and pesticide overuse, maintains soil fertility, helps in reducing labor and enhances crop yield and productivity despite world problems. However, its penetration into agriculture is still in its infancy due to its uneconomical nature, lack of expertise and big data requirement for accuracy among others. This paper delves deeper into the various applications and impacts of AI in agriculture, new tools being used, challenges and future scope related to this field. Combined with Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models and Machine Learning (ML), along with Expert systems (ES) and Internet of Things (IoT), AI can do wonders in agriculture in the subsequent years to come.