EXPERT SYSTEM FOR CROP SELECTION IN AGRICULTURE: A CRITICAL REVIEW
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Farming sector in India is highly un-organized and mostly traditional, most of the systems followed are passed down through generations. Expert System is one of the important application oriented branches of Artificaial intelligence. In the past decade, a great deal of expert system had been developed and applied to many field such as office automation, science and medicine including agriculture. Crop selection is a crucial and decisive task under the dynamic environment agricultural systems created by differences in climate, soils, cultivations practices and available resources. For farmers and farm production managers, a decision regarding crop selection is a difficult task. It is also known as knowledge based system (KBS). Agricultural Expert system is a special computer program designed to simulate the problem solving behavior of an agri expert in a narrow domain or discipline. In agriculture such system integrate the accumulated expertise of various discipline such as entomology, horticulture, soil management into a framework that best address the specific problems and onsite needs of the Indian farmers. It combines experimental and conventional knowledge with the reasoning skills of specialists to help farmers in making the best decisions for raising a successful crop. The main advantage of expert system is not only the easy access to expert solution but also to enhance the performance of average worker to the level of an expert.
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