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Development of Expert System
on Wheat Crop Management
(EXOWHEM)
INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI-110012
Project Profile Summary
• The Project is an effort to solve the problems faced by a
farmer where the services of the expert is not available
• It will advise farmers on variety selection, field
preparation, fertilizer application, schedule of irrigation
• It will be able to provide solution to the problems faced by
the farmers through online queries
• It will also help in identifying insect/pest attack and
suggest suitable remedies
• The Expert system will extend large amount of research
work done by the ICAR institutes, Directorate of wheat
research and SAUs to the Farmers and Researchers
INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI-110012
Objectives
Immediate Objective
• To collect and compile the information from the experts for
Wheat Crop Management
• To develop the knowledge base for the Expert System
• To develop inference engine for the expert system
• To develop and implement expert system on Wheat Crop
Management
Long term objectives:
To enhance the efficiency of production system for wheat crop
by the extension of available crop / farm management
technology to the farmers through the Expert system
INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI-110012
Methodology
• Literature and research papers related to wheat crop management
will be collected
• Modules related to wheat crop management will be identified and
allocated to the associates
• Information from the experts of wheat from various disciplines for
the soil type, weather conditions water and fertilizer requirement
essential for the growth of healthy crop will be collected
• The information collected from the farmers and experts will be
catalogued
• Database will be designed using SQL server
• Questionnaire will be developed on the basis of this information
with the help of wheat experts
• Input forms will be developed for asking the questions to the
farmers that would be in a specific order according to the
questionnaire
INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI-110012
Methodology
• Expert System shell will be developed using appropriate
scripting language to integrate fact and rules with the system
• Suitable GUI’s will be developed for the user’s interaction with
the system
• Inference engine will be developed using expert system shell.
The inference engine will search for the most appropriate
remedy on the basis of input data
• All possible media that can be used to enhance the explanation
capabilities of the system would be included such as images,
movie clips and sound tracks
• The developed system will be demonstrated in a workshop and
suggestions for improvement will be taken
• Suggestions will be incorporated and the System will be
published on Intranet
INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI-110012
Objective wise activity
Activities for Objective 1
• Review of Literature
• Identification and allocation of Modules in requirement
analysis workshop
• Consultation with Experts and farmers to acquire Knowledge
• Cataloguing of information collected from farmers and wheat
experts
Activities for Objective 2
• Designing of Databases for facts and rules
• Extensive interview with the farmers and experts for
developing question bank
• Formulation of rules and integrating it with the system using
suitable scripting language
• Data Entry
INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI-110012
Objective wise activity
Activities for Objective 3
• Development of Expert System Shell
• Development of GUI for user’s interaction with the
system
• Development of Inference engine using Expert System
Shell
Activities for Objective 4
• Testing the developed system
• Organization of workshop for demonstration
• Incorporation of Suggestion
• Implementation of the System on the Intranet
• Report Writing
INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI-110012
Architecture
It will be divided in three distributed tiers
• Data Access Tier (at Database server)
• Logic and Inference building tier (Web Server)
• Presentation Tier (Browser at the user’s end)
INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI-110012
Function
• It will helps in extending Research to Farmer’s and End
users
• It will help farmers in remote places to solve their problem
where the services of experts are not available
• It will minimizes the load from experts
• It will be an effective means of extension
• It will be helpful for scientists, students, domain experts
and policy makers
INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI-110012
Participating Scientists
Principal Investigator :
Shahnawazul Islam
Co-Principal Investigator :
Harnam Singh Sikarwar
Associated Scientists:
Mohd. Samir Farooqi
Vipin Dubey
K.K. Chaturvedi
H.O. Aggarwal
Associated Scientists from DWR :
Dr. Randhir Singh
Dr. R. K. Sharma
Dr. A. K. Sharma
Associated Scientists from IARI :
Dr. J.P. Sharma
Dr. K.D.Srivastava
Dr. Kirti Sharma
Two Technical Assistants from the field of Computer Science and Agriculture
Duration of the Project : 3 Years
Expenditure Involved is : 1.90 lakhs
INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI-110012