1. A
Summer Internship Project
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“A study on How to make Smart Agriculture in India by Agro processing, Agro Storage and Agro
Services Part I”
Presented To
Honorable Jury Members
PREPARED BY
Mosin Malek Baldev Senma
Exam no. 124 Exam no. 194

2. Flow of Presentation
Introduction to the topic and overview
Literature Review
Research Methodology
Data analysis and Interpretation
Findings
Conclusion

3. Smart : Definition
Smart has its original meaning of "stinging, sharp" as in a smart blow
Smart Student : having or showing quick intelligence or ready Mental Capability
Smart Machines: Capable of making adjustments similar to human decisions, in
response to changing conditions
 Smart Windows: regulates the amount of light transmitted in response to
varying light conditions using sensors & controls

4. Smart Village
Smart Village is defined as follows:
• Parking lot management
• Smart Lamps – Indoor & Outdoor
• Gas & Water meter management
• Energy Management – Solar panel control
• Air quality sensors
• Vehicle monitoring
• Traffic management
• Environmental monitoring sensors (temperature, humidity,
• vibration, etc.)
• Access control
• Logistics sensor

5. Smart Agriculture
• Management of farms, crops, livestock, aquaculture and capture fisheries to
manage resources better, produce more with less while increasing resilience
• Services for farmers and land managers to enable them to implement the
necessary changes
• Enhancing financing options to support implementation, linking climate and
agricultural finance

7. Global Scenario
• Agricultural growth contributes directly to food security. It also supports poverty
reduction. And it acts as an engine of overall economic growth in much of the developing
world. The success of the agricultural sector has not been shared uniformly across regions
and countries
• The use of inputs such as fertilizer, modern varieties, tractors and irrigation are other
determinants of yield growth. While modern varieties increasingly seem to play a more
important role in yield growth, growth
• World agriculture faces many future challenges:
to accelerate production growth in poor agriculture based countries, especially in Sub-
Saharan Africa
• satisfying increasing global demands for food,
• coping with water shortages, climate change and vulnerability, and navigating the potential
conflict between devoting land to animal food and biofuels relative to direct human food.

8. Indian Scenario
• The Indian agriculture sector accounts for 13.9 per cent of India's gross domestic
product (GDP) and employs just a little less than 54.6 per cent of the country's
workforce
• In the recent decades, there is an increasing demand of organic foods in the
developed world.
• India has a great potential for organic farming using traditional wisdoms
prevailing in the villages of India
• Agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan has played a vital role in the green
revolution. In 2013 NDTV awarded him as 25 living legend of India for
outstanding contribution to agriculture and making India a food sovereign
country

9. Literature Review
Agro-processing
Agro-industry is an industry that uses or processes agricultural
products as raw materials in its production process .The agro-
industry provides the crucial farm-industry linkage which helps
accelerate agricultural development by creating backward linkages
(supply of credit, inputs and other production enhancement services)
and forward linkages (processing and marketing), adding value to
the farmer's produce (Quddus, 2009)

10. Agro-storage
Food grains form an important part of the vegetarian Indian diet. Grain production has
been steadily increasing due to advancement in production technology, but improper storage
results in high losses in grains. According to World Bank Report (1999), post-harvest losses
in India amount to 12 to 16 million metric tons of food grains each year, an amount that the
World Bank stipulates could feed one-third of India's poor. The monetary value of these
losses amounts to more than Rs 50,000 cores per year. (Naik & Geetanjali Kaushik )

11. Agro-services
“E-Agriculture” is an emerging field in the intersection of agricultural informatics,
agricultural development and entrepreneurship, referring to agricultural services,
technology dissemination, and information delivered or enhanced through the
Internet and related technologies. (A., Ghogare,, & Priyanka M. Monga, 2015)

12. Research Methodology
• Population Definition: Farmers of villages of Kadi,
RESEARCH DESIGN Exploratory
SAMPLING TECHNIQUE Non-Probability (convenience Sampling)
SAMPLE SIZE 60 Respondents
SAMPLING UNITS Farmers and Non-Farmers, those who have knowledge about
agriculture.
DATA SOURCE Primary data: unstructured Questionnaire (open ended and close ended
questions)
Secondary data: Books, Research Papers and websites.

13. Research Objectives
Objectives:-
• To know the real problems faced by the farmers
• To study the availability of Agro services in surrounding area of Kadi
• To study the Agro Processing activities prevailing in the North Gujarat
• To study the Availability of Storage facilities for crops in the villages
• To study the awareness of Government Schemes and services to the
Farmers

14. Questions and
Responses

15. Questions asked to Farmers
• How much land you have?
• How many times do you use this land for farming in a year?
• Which types of crops do you produce?
• Which types of Fertilizers do you use and how frequently?
• Which types of irrigation system are available in your village?
• Which types of technology do you use for Sowing, Growing and Harvesting for
your crops?
• After harvesting the crops do you store it? If yes so which types of storage
system do you have?
• Why the farmers of north Gujarat not store their crops?
• From where you are getting information to improve your land productivity?
• Have you attended any seminar or meeting regarding agriculture?

16. Questions asked to Sarpanches
• Which are the main crops of your village?
• Which are major problems faced by farmers of your village?
• Which types of storage facilities are available in your village?
• Which kind of agriculture services available in your village?
• Which type of processing is possible for the crops and what kind of output
we can get after processing?

17. Findings
• In the villages of Kadi taluka , no single processing facility.
• Use traditional farming system. Due to poor financial condition
• Lack of proper storage facility.
• 70 % of farmers are not getting any type of farming related information from
any source
• Two villages: Untva and Manipur are most advanced.
• Both villages are associated with project named ATMA and KVK

18. Possible Solutions
• Educate the farmers
• Special agricultural zone
• Middlemen and economic exploitation of farmers
• Waste water should be treated in irrigation
• Government should provide subsidy to purchase equipment of farming or
provide rented equipment of farming.
• Convert Agri-Waste into compost

19. Conclusion
In our survey of Agriculture, we found Problems of Farmers in agriculture.
We also found that farmers are very dissatisfied with government.
According to Farmers, Government is taking initiative but speed is very slow.
The survey of government agency is not giving any types of benefits to farmers.
We also saw that no one village have any type of storage facilties.

20. Except cotton and oil industry, there is no other processing companies in
surrounding are of kadi.
Farmers are not getting information from panchayat, and government.
So, finally we want to say that this project is mainly to find the problems of
farmers.
But we would like to thank Mr. S.B. Dangayach Sir M.D of sintex ltd. To give
us opportunity for further research on Smart solutions for Agriculture.