Author : Kusumakar and Archana Singh

In the current era of liberalization every sector is competitive including agriculture, as it plays a major role either directly or indirectly in improving economic status of a country. Cloud computing, a recent IT revolution, can be used as a new computing paradigm to the agriculture sector. Cloud computing data centers will allow in storing vast database securely on which many complex calculations can be done as required by the researchers, scientists or farmers. It can provide timely and accurate data to take right decisions and to make better plans for the farms or fields. This paper proposes a framework for Management of Agriculture Data (MAD) and MAD-Expert Service Module as a part of MAD Cloud.

Keywords: MAD (Management of Agriculture Data), MDPL (MAD Data Processing Layer).

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.3,No.5(Dec- 2013)