Semester IV
Agricultural Informatics and Artificial Intelligence
AST 221 · 3 (2+1) credit hours
Syllabus
Topic-wise syllabus
Theory
24 topics · 32 lectures
| No. | Topic | Lectures |
|---|---|---|
| Unit I | ||
| 1 | Introduction to Computers, Anatomy of Computers, Memory Concepts and Units of Memory | 1 |
| 2 | Operating Systems: Definition and types | 1 |
| 3 | Application of MS Office for creating, editing and formatting a document, Data presentation, Tabulation and graph creation | 3 |
| 4 | Statistical Analysis: Mean, Standard Deviation, Correlation, Regression using mathematical and analysis tools in MS Excel | 2 |
| 5 | Database: Concepts and types, creating of database | 1 |
| 6 | Uses of DBMS in agriculture | 1 |
| 7 | Internet and World Wide Web: Concepts and Components | 1 |
| 8 | Computer Programming, General Concepts | 1 |
| 9 | Introduction to Visual Basics, Java, Fortran, C/C++ and Standard input output operations | 2 |
| Unit II | ||
| 10 | e-Agriculture, concepts, designs and development | 1 |
| 11 | Application of Innovative ways to use information and communication technologies in Agriculture | 1 |
| 12 | Computer models in Agriculture: Statistical, weather analysis and crop simulation methods | 2 |
| 13 | Concepts, structure, input-output files, limitation, advantages and application of models for understanding plant processes, sensitivity, verification, calibration and validation | 1 |
| 14 | IT applications for computation of water and nutrient requirement of crops | 1 |
| 15 | Computer controlled devices (automated systems) for agri-inputs management | 1 |
| 16 | Mobile Apps in agriculture for farm advice, market price and post-harvest management etc. | 1 |
| 17 | Geospatial technology: Concepts, techniques, components and uses for generating useful Agri-information | 1 |
| 18 | Decision support systems: Concepts, components and applications in Agriculture. Agriculture Expert System, Soil Information Systems etc., for supporting farm decisions | 1 |
| 19 | Preparation of contingent crop planning and crop calendar using IT tools | 1 |
| 20 | Digital India and schemes to promote digitalization of agriculture in India | 1 |
| Unit III | ||
| 21 | Introduction to artificial intelligence, background and applications in agriculture | 1 |
| 22 | Control Strategies, breadth first search, Depth first search, Heuristics search techniques, best first search, A* Algorithm, IoT and big data | 2 |
| 23 | Use of AI in agriculture for autonomous crop management and health, monitoring livestock health, intelligent pesticide application, yield mapping, predictive analysis, automatic weeding and harvesting, sorting of produce and other food processing applications | 3 |
| 24 | Concepts of smart agriculture, use of AI in food and nutrition science etc. | 1 |
Practical
14 topics
| No. | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Study of computer components accessories |
| 2 | Practice of important DOS-commands |
| 3 | Introduction of different operating systems such as Windows, Unix/Linux; Creating files and folders, file management |
| 4 | To know about MS Word and its functions |
| 5 | To know about MS-PowerPoint and its functions |
| 6 | To know about MS-Excel and its functions |
| 7 | Use of statistical tools in MS-Excel, creating graphs, analysis of scientific data |
| 8 | MS-Access, creating database, prepare queries and reports |
| 9 | Demonstration of Agri-information systems |
| 10 | Introduction to World Wide Web (WWW) and its components, Introduction of programming languages such as Visual Basic, Java, Fortran, C, C++, Hands on practice on Crop Simulation Models (CSM) |
| 11 | DSSAT/Crop-Info/CropSyst/Wofost, Preparation of inputs file for CSM and study of model outputs |
| 12 | Computation of water and nutrient requirements of crop using CSM and IT tools |
| 13 | Use of smartphones and other devices in agro-advisory and dissemination of market information |
| 14 | Introduction of Geospatial technology, AR/VR demonstration, Preparation of contingent crop planning, India Digital Ecosystem of Agriculture (IDEA) |
Study material
Notes
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