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Abstract

Providing food for the growing population is a challenging task, however, with historical agricultural practices, we can’t meet the food requirement of the world population. We are in the need to adopt modern technology to overcome adverse climatic and cultural challenges, which are faced by current generation, that is Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is the booming technology in the agriculture, which uses different sensors and neural networks and uses resources minimally based on need and predict the coming obstacles, which causes huge loss to crop. This review explain is, various applications of AI in the sustainable agriculture for crop managemen by overcoming realtime challenges and importance of AI in agriculture by comparing with traditional methods.


 

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artificial intelligence Food production Agricultural problems Technology I

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Kotte, B., A, N., V, S. A., Hema Lingireddy, K V, G., Abhijeet Mudhale, B, G. S., & E, A. (2024). Artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in agriculture: A Review . Environment Conservation Journal, 25(1), 274–288. https://doi.org/10.36953/ECJ.24052645

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