Rice Cultivation and Its Disease Classification in Precision Agriculture

Bharat is a cultivation-based country that cultivates various crops, including rice, in colossal capacity. Rice is one of the daily used crops across the country and other parts of the globe. Rice is cultivated in almost every state in Bharat. However, rice plant diseases severely degrade the quality and quantity of the crop. Rice plants can be affected by different conditions, e.g., foot rot, sheath blight, etc., causing a loss in the farming output. Various steps, including academic research, are practiced to detect rice diseases in their early stage to minimize the loss and increase the productivity of the agriculture sector. The schemes involve traditional and technology-based innovative solutions like agricultural cyber-physical systems (ACPS) or precision agriculture. This paper provides a state-of-the-art on rice crop cultivation, its disease classifications, etc. The paper depicts the importance of rice in daily life and how it plays a vital role in health. Later, this paper provides statistics on rice production in Bharat, followed by the export of rice to different countries. Subsequently, we offer a detailed analysis of rice cultivation, various diseases that can occur in rice plants and other prevention mechanisms for these diseases in the early stages of their life cycle. Finally, recent developments in precision agriculture are provided.