Pesticide Usage Forecasting for Agriculture Using Prophet Model

Agriculture plays a vital role in our day-to-day life for the life sustenance of not just human beings but also various domestic and livestock animals. In addition to this, agriculture also contributes significantly to the economy of a country, impacting its growth across the globe. India had always been an agriculture-dominated country before the companies from the West started investing in India. But alongside agriculture come various challenges such as infestation by insects or weeds which eventually lead to the damage of crops and even diseases. But pesticides can even contribute to the contamination of soil, water, and other vegetation in areas where they are been used. In this paper, we have used the Prophet model to study the use of pesticides and analyze the trends of usage of organic pesticides over inorganic pesticides.