Advance Farming

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Crop sensors

Crop sensor analysis the crop health and help for estimating the requirement of crop for grow up. By using the crop sensor farmer get idea which fertilizer , pesticides are use and how many quantity is require for crop. Drones or optical sensor are able to identify crop health over field. For example, by using infra-red light.

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Agricultural robots

Agricultural robots do the agriculture process automate such as harvesting, weeding, ploughing, fruit picking, planting, soil maintainance. Agriculture robot reduce require time and money. It is a replacement of human labor.

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Tractor

Tractor is used in agriculture from many time ago. It is excellent machinery for do the most of the work fastly in agriculture. Tractor attache to a plough can help you till the field, attach a cart so carry your goods or cattle to the market and also carry heavy equipment. It is generally used for cultivation of gardens. By using Tractor save lot of time.

"Old is gold", is true for tractor.

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Combine or Harvester

Combine Harvester is a modern equipment used for harvest the various crop. It is called combine because it's combine three different process of harvesting such as reaping, threshing, winnowing into a single process. combine harvester is one of the labour saving equipment.

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Plough or Plows

Plough or Plows is a farming tool used for turnover the upper layer soil so that soil is prepare for planting the seed. It is easily shift the earth by use it's powerful blade. Now a day plough drawn by tractor.After turn over the soil yeild is increase rapidly so that plough is one of the important equipment in farming.

Moldboard plows: Moldboard plows is completely turn over the soil , this is specially use for uncultivated area. The large wings of the plow are designed to cut into and turn over all of the soil in an area.

Chisel Plow: Chisel plow turn over the soil to a depth of 12 inches and crop residues that are turned over during the plowing are concentrated in that soil depth.

Disk Plow:Disk plow Cuts into the soil but doesn’t turn it over completely. It is less effective than moldboard and chisel plow.

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Drag

Drag is use for break wood, metal, and solid particles in the farm, Because the solid particles disrupt the growth of crops in the area and also used to smooth the ground. It is aim to provide the best land for farming.

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Sprayer

Sprayer is a tool that is use for pesticide, insecticide, fungicide are sprayed over the crop. It has a tank to carry the specific amount of all chemical that spray over crop. Sprayer is drawn by tractor. When work with Sprayer the gas mask should be worn because the chemical is harmful.

For applying compost tea, herbicides (organic or synthetic), a sprayer is a necessary piece of farm equipment. Sprayer cover tha large area of farm so it has required less time for spray the pesticide over crop and the capacity of tank is also large.

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ATV/UTV

The all-terrain vehicles (or four-wheelers) and utility vehicles (think hefty golf carts) are advance farm equipment, and use of this equipment is a fun. It is small in size so easy to handle as compaire large equipment and it's occupy less space. Large equipment can not move everywhere so it is a solution on that. They can tow small trailers, and you can get attachments for many models

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Intercropping

Intercropping is the method of multiple cropping in the same place at the same time. Aim of intercropping to increase useability of land and increase the yeild. For example planting tall crop with a shorter crop that need partial shade. With the help of intercropping method farmer get additional yeild income/unit area than sole cropping and it acts an insurance against failure of crop in abnormal year. Inter-crops maintain the soil fertility as the nutrient uptake is made from both layers of soil and Reduction in soil runoff and controls weeds.

Intercropping Combinations

Crop	Intercrop With
Asparagus	Tomato, Parsley, Basil
Bush Beans	Potato, Cucumber, Corn, Strawberry, Celery, Summer Savory
Pole Beans	Corn, Summer Savory, Radish
Cabbage Family	Aromatic Herbs, Celery, Beets, Onion Family, Chamomile, Spinach, Chard
Carrots	Radishes, Lettuce, Rosemary, Onion Family, Sage, Tomato
Celery	Onion, Cabbage Families, Tomato, Bush Beans, Nasturtium
Corn	Potato, Beans, Pumpkins, Cucumber, Squash
Eggplant	Beans, Marigold
Lettuce	Carrots, Radish, Strawberry, Cucumber
Onion Family	Beets, Carrots, Lettuce, Cabbage Family, Summer Savory
Parsley	Tomato, Asparagus
Potato	Beans, Corn, Cabbage Family, Marigolds, Horseradish
Pumpkins	Beans, Corn, Marigold
Radish	Carrots, Nasturtium, Lettuce, Cucumber
Spinach	Strawberry, Beans
Squash	Nasturtium, Corn, Marigold
Tomato	Onion Family, Nasturtium, Marigold, Asparagus, Carrots, Parsley, Cucumber
Turnip	Aromatic Herbs, Celery, Beets, Onion Family, Chamomile, Spinach, Chard

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Relay cropping

Relay cropping is one of the way of increasing the profit in agriculture. It has benifit of overcome nitrate leaching from soil and increase carbon sequenstration.

In relay farming two crops are planted at the same land but both crops have different harvesting time. Second crop is planted before first crop is harvested or can planted after harvested the first crop, so that every crop share a portion of the growing season, increasing solar radiation and heat available to every crop.

Relay cropping is a good plan to use the available land , increase the profit and also yeild do not depend only a single crop.