Precision Agriculture & Farm Energy

Digital and renewable farming. Sensors, drones, NDVI and variable-rate technology, solar PV, biogas, greenhouses and farm structures.

• Precision Agriculture, Sensors & Drones — Managing each part of the field according to its needs. Learn the precision agriculture cycle (sense–analyse–decide–act), GNSS/RTK positioning and auto-steering, yield monitoring and mapping, soil sampling and management zones, remote sensing and vegetation indices (NDVI, NDRE), drones for mapping and spraying, IoT soil and weather sensors, variable-rate technology for fertiliser, seed and water, farm management information systems, AI for disease detection and yield prediction, and data economics — with Python for NDVI zoning and variable-rate nitrogen.
• Solar — Photovoltaic (PV) cells turn sunlight directly into electricity. Learn how cells work, I–V and P–V curves, maximum power point tracking, temperature and irradiance effects, energy yield, and how to size and string a rooftop system.
• Farm Structures & Renewable Energy — Buildings and energy systems for the farm. Learn farm structures (storage godowns, silos, animal housing, poly-houses and greenhouses), greenhouse climate control (ventilation, cooling, heating), energy use in agriculture, biogas plants (anaerobic digestion, design and sizing, slurry use), biomass and gasifiers, solar PV water pumping (PM-KUSUM), solar dryers, agri-voltaics, and energy efficiency — with Python for biogas yield, digester sizing and solar pump PV array sizing.