Soil Doctor

The Problem: -India is spending nearly 10 billion US dollars on fertilisers subsidy every year. -Farmers are applying fertilisers wtihout taking into account soil quality. -Traditional methods of soil analysis are laborious, time consuming and expensive. Research: India is considered as agrarian economy. -To develop a system for rapid assessment of soil quality. -To monitor soil quality on near real time basis. -Help in meeting Sustainable Development Goals: -Goal No.1 - No Poverty -Goal No. 2 - Zero Hunger -Goal No.13 – Climatic Action The Concept: -Use of AI to monitor the soil quality. -Use of IOT for getting the information about the nutrients status of soil. -Developing decision support system for crop land suitability. -Rapid analysis of soils using sensors will help farmers in need based application of fertilizers. -Hazardous chemicals are used in analysis of soil which affects our environment. Ethics: -The product developed is a unique idea. -It will empower every farmer with a cost effective solution. -Privacy and Security were considered while developing this project. -It is accountable in solving real life problems. -It is easy and safe to use. -It is very cost effective. -It is very portable and easy to use.

Student Team Name: Aryaman Verma - Grade 10 Bhavya Bansal - Grade 9 Mehr Gupta - Grade 11 Project title: Soil Doctor Number of team members: 3 Age range of team members:14-16 yrs AI for good initiative: AI For Earth