Abstract:
The system development was motivated by the need to reduce the losses in form of low or poor
quality crop yields in the time of harvesting being caused as a result of inaccurate methods used
by farmers while determining the type of crop to plant on given piece of land.
The system comprises of a hardware and software part. The hardware part comprises of an a
conductivity probe sensor for measuring the conductivity (EC) value of a given soil sample
which represents its level of soil fertility plus and circuit connected with and an Arduino board
whose purpose is to store and interpret the commands to be used by the conductivity probe in
measuring the soil fertility levels of a given soil sample plus sending the obtained values to
database server on the P.C.
The software part comprises of a database server consisting of the threshold E.C values of the
different crops below or above which crops can’t be able to yield maximally. These values are
compared with the values measured by the sensor from a given soil sample to determine the type
of crops suitable for given piece of land which are then displayed on a graphical user interface on
a person computer.
This helps farmers in making wise decisions on the type of crops to type on a given piece of land
plus, other good farming practices to avoid making losses at the end of a season.
