Author : Karuna Chandraul and Archana Singh

Today’s agriculture is embedded with advance services like GPS, sensors etc, that enable to communicate to each other, analyse the data and also exchange data among them. IT provides services in the form of cloud to agriculture. Agriculture-Cloud and IT offers expertise service to farmers regarding cultivation of crops, pricing, fertilizers, disease detail method of cure to be used etc. Scientists working at Agriculture research stations can add their discoveries, suggestions regarding modern techniques for cultivation, usage of fertilizers, can obtain cultivation history of the region etc. In this paper, our study was based on is to design and implement a simple Cloud based application on Agriculture System which is based on Agri-Cloud that enhance agriculture production and also enhance the availability of data related to research projects in field and also in lab. The impact of doing it would cut the cost, time, and make the communication system much faster and easier. We performed the simulation and experiments by using PHP server, mySQL database.

Keywords: Agri-Cloud, GDP, SMI(service measurement index).

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