Crop Monitoring and Protection System

Abstract

Agriculture is considered the backbone of Pakistan’s economy, which relies heavily on its major crops. According to ministry of finance lt contributes about 19% GDP also reports for 37.4% of employed labor force and is the largest source of foreign exchange earnings. Pakistan is blessed to have 40% arable land. Issue concerning agriculture have been always make the development of country difficult. As we aware of the locust outbreak in Pakistan since 2019. According to the Punjab government statement “Over an area of 715 acres in Punjab have been damaged" and most of the crops is damaged by the plant's disease. The only solution to these problems is smart crop protection and monitoring. Smart crop protection and monitoring system (SCPM) is an efficient way to protect and monitor the crops using Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) based system. It aims to automate the agriculture. This device will monitor the crops and warn the farmer about soil moister level, locusts attack and if there are any diseases in crop. It will automate the water motor based on soil moister level. It would turn ON the buzzer if locust detected to make them run away. It will also send information of regarding crops to the authorized person.