Emerging Trends and Statistical Analysis in Computational Modeling in Agriculture

Abstract

In this paper the authors have tried to describe emerging trend in computational modelling used in the sphere of agriculture. Agricultural computational modelling with the use of intelligence techniques for computing the agricultural output by providing minimum input data to lessen the time through cutting down the multi locational field trials and also the labours and other inputs is getting momentum. Development of locally suitable integrated farming systems (IFS) is the utmost need of the day, particularly in India where about 95% farms are under small and marginal holding size. Optimization of the size and number of the various enterprises to the desired IFS model for a particular set of agro-climate is essential components of the research to sustain the agricultural productivity for not only filling the stomach of the bourgeoning population of the country, but also to enhance the nutritional security and farms return for quality life. Review of literature pertaining to emerging trends in computational modelling applied in field of agriculture is done and described below for the purpose of understanding its trends mechanism behavior and its applications. Computational modelling is increasingly effective for designing and analysis of the system. Computational modelling is an important tool to analyses the effect of different scenarios of climate and management options on the farming systems and its interaction among themselves. Further, authors have also highlighted the applications of computational modeling in integrated farming system, crops, weather, soil, climate, horticulture and statistical used in agriculture which can show the path to the agriculture researcher and rural farming community to replace some of the traditional techniques.