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India has second highest agriculture land in the world. A majority of Indian population depends for their employment on the agriculture sector. Water management is a big issue of Indian agriculture sector, which affects the productivity. Indian irrigation system is mainly dependent on rain. Due to lower than expected rain and lack of water manageme...
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... Since India is the second highest country having the widest agricultural land in the world [7], water management is a big issue of their agriculture sector, which directly affects their productivity. Water may be abundant in some time, but not all the time and they can't just rely on the rain to give them abundant supply of farm water, instead WSN were utilized to help manage water when it is detected to be over the needed supply, they are then limiting the water flow to have sufficient supply for the next days and weeks to come, in this way they have managed to increase crop productivity. ...
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