An Effective Moisture Control based Modern Irrigation System (MIS) with Arduino Nano

Agriculture plays a cardinal role in India, which established during the times of Indus valley civilization. There was a GDP of 15.4% accounted in 2016 for agriculture and its associated sectors. India stands first in the agricultural sectors followed to the US and China [1]. Agriculture needs an irrigation infrastructure, which includes major and minor canals from river bodies, groundwater stored in wells, tank storages and rainwater harvesting systems. The irrigation infrastructure improvements have helped India to improve food security, increase agricultural output and decreased dependency on rainwater. This project focused on proposing an effective moisture control based Modern Irrigation System (MIS) using Arduino Nano with various adjustments to the plantation. The main purpose of this project is to reduce the excess water usage, thereby saving crops from damage. There were numerous projects and prototypes for automatic irrigation using Arduino, but these projects are effective only for only one crop. The proposed system can be applied to various crops, as those crops have different moisture conditions for its growth.