Mash up of Web Based Agriculture and Irrigation Services on Cloud: A Case of India

Abstract

A major challenge of the agricultural sector is the lack of timely information about crop varieties, production techniques, and production and yield strategies. Farmers need to make efficient use of modern technology to achieve maximum yield from available land. Therefore this paper mainly aims at providing a mash up of web based services (namely agriculture service and irrigation service) hosted on cloud platform to help the farmers gain beneficial information regarding farming in India. Hence this paper will mainly help farmers by providing them detailed information about crops and will enable the farmers to maximize the yield by adopting the best methods and practices.