Krishak-Help
SGT University
Naman Mishra Gurugram,Haryana
Dept. of Computer Science & namanmishra.nm5@gmail.com
Engineering
Abstract—This project is an appproach to optimise the profit-
expense ratio of farmers to some extent. The general idea behind
this solution is to optimise the quantity of fertilizers needed for a
given crop using data-analytics; therfore, causing a drop in the
overall expense. (Abstract)
Keywords—data-analytics, machine learning, regression,
statistics.
I. INTRODUCTION
The farming practices implemented in our country is
greatly governed by traditions, conventions, past
experiences and a little guesswork. This although not causes
much problems for farmers as far as growing their crops is
concerned but it doesn’t fully utilize the input that a farmer
puts in their land.
The Krishak-Help software is designed as an approach in
solving this specific issue with the agriculture. The basic
general idea behind this software is using past data about the
factors affecting the crop prior and just after seeding,
quantity and expense of fertilizers required to grow a crop
and using statistical techniques to give the approximate cost
of fertilizers that the farmer will need to carry out for
farming a particular crop.
II. COMPARISON BETWEEN AVAILABLE SOLUTIONS AND THIS
SOFTWARE
A. The Conventional Methodologies
The total cost of fertilizers required to grow a target yield
of a particular crop is the last thing a farmer enquires about.
Generally, a farmer buys the soil nutrients as per guesswork
and available knowledge. There are experts for telling the
quantity of fertilizers and other chemicals that are required, but
their opinion may be biased due to many factors like
unavailability of the complete knowledge of the soil condition
of the farmable land. Even though reliable soil tests are
available, very few farmers are willing to go through getting
their farmland’s soil tested and waiting for an appointment
with the experts for finding out the required fertilizers for their
farm.
B. The Working of Krishak-Help
The Krishak-Help uses data-analytics and regression
[1]
employed to a dataset ranging over four decades collected by
Indian Institute of Soil Sciences, Bhopal for making a crop-
wise recommendation system. For the sake of simplicity, only
two crops;i.e; wheat and rice are selected for r
Here,
the geographical region of areas mutually bordering Haryana,
Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi & NCR.
III. HOW THE SOLUTION IS IMPLEMENTED IN TH SOFTWARE
The dataset from the research paper mentioned in previous
section is first ran through a regression testing algorithm to
find out the mathematical relationship between the different
nutrients from different fertilizer quantities and the final yield
of the desired crop.
After the equations are derieved, the next task is to take a
specific fertilizer brands, the efficiency of which is known to
give a standard output. This project uses the fertilizers made
by IIFCO as it’s standard. The next task of the project is pretty
straight-forward. Build a user interface so that any user with a
little technical skill can interact with the software. The final
task is to give the output in such a way that it can be printed
out for further use. We are using text file system for this
purpose.
A. Objectives of the Project
The primary goal of this project is to help the farmers by
optimizing their profit-expense ratio of farming. The
secondary goal is to reduce the practice of stubble burning in
by the farmers.
B. Units
 The unit of area of farm-land is taken in
hectares(unless specified).
 All the mass measurements are done in
kilograms(unless specified).
 All costs are measured in Indian National
Rupees(unless specified).
C. Equations
There are two types of equations that are used in this
software. First set of equations can be classified on the basis
of crops.
There are two sets of equations, one set for rice crop and
other set is for wheat crop.
The set of equations for rice are given below :
fnitrogen = float(4.93*target) - float((47*snitrogen)/100)
fphosphorous = float(4.48*target) - float(7.82*sphosphorous)
fpotassium = float(2.31*target) - float((21*spotassium)/100)
snitrogen = Value of nitrogen found during soil test
spotassium = Value of potassium found during soil test
sphosphorous = Value of phosphorous found during soil test
The equations for wheat crop is further divided based on
whether Farm Yield Manure is available or not. The first set
of equations will be employed when FYM is available is as
follows :-
fnitrogen = float(3.85*target) - float((41*snitrogen)/100) -
float(1.64*50)
#FYM contains 0.5% Nitrogen. So Nitrogen content per 10
tonnes of FYM is 50 kilograms.

fphosphorous = float(2.78*target) - float(4.12*sphosphorous)

- float(1.72*20)
#FYM contains 0.2% Phosphorous. So Phosphorous content
per 10 tonnes of FYM is 20 kilograms.

fpotassium = float(2.04*target) - float(29*spotassium) -

float((88*35)/100)
#FYM contains 0.2% Potassium. So Potassium content per 10
tonnes of FYM is 35 kilograms.
If FYM is not available, these set of equations will be used :-
fnitrogen = float(5.31*target) - float((51*snitrogen)/100)

fphosphorous = float(3.45*target) - float(5.55*sphosphorous)

fpotassium = float(2.75*target) - float((32*spotassium)/100)

if fpotassium <= 0: then, fpotassium = 10

if fphosphorous <= 0: then, fphosphorous = 10

IV. SAMPLE SCREENSHOTS OF THE SOFTWARE
The Graphical User Interface :
CONCLUSION :
The costs that are necessary for agriculture include the cost of
preparing the land, cost of planting the seeds, cost of
irrigation, harvesting costs, etc. Most of these costs can be
reduced using technology like smart water irrigation system,
and so on. This paper focuses on reducing costs of buying
fertilizers for the crops while maximizing the output yield.