Crop Stubble Burning: Can modern technology trigger a new revolution?

Abstract

In India, there are many Agri-tech start-ups, which majorly focused on supply chain, and now focusing on the expansion of farms and management of yields. There is a larger area, which is still unexplored and has never achieved any focus by any start-ups,” The leftover stubble after the segregation of grains”. We all know, we are into a pandemic situation, which has an alarming risk of deterioration of lungs of all the COVID19 recovered as well as non-recovered patient. As we are approaching the month of October, North India has a greater challenge coming its way, that is Stubble Burning. Keeping this in mind, this paper focuses on the prediction of stubble produced in a particular farm using OpenCV and AI, and calculation of its actual worth, which will help convince the farmers to sell it instead of burning. Managing the disposal of stubble in a better way, and helping in reducing farmers suicide and also to grow their economy using this model.