Crop Recommendation System to Maximize Crop Yield using Machine Learning Technique

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Crop Recommendation System to Maximize Crop Yield using Machine
Learning Technique
Rohit Kumar Rajak1, Ankit Pawar2, Mitalee Pendke3 , Pooja Shinde4, Suresh Rathod5,
Avinash Devare6
123456Dept. of Computer Engineering, Sinhagad Academy of Engineering, Maharashtra, India
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Abstract - Agriculture in India plays a major role in
economy and employment. The common difficulty present
among the Indian farmers are they don’t opt for the proper
crop based on their soil necessities. Because of this
productivity is affected. This problem of the farmers has
been solved through precision agriculture. This method is
characterized by a soil database collected from the farm,
crop provided by agricultural experts, achievement of
parameters such as soil through soil testing lab dataset. The
data from soil testing lab given to recommendation system
it will use the collect data and do ensemble model with
majority voting technique using support vector machine
(SVM) and ANN as learners to recommend a crop for site
specific parameter with high accuracy and efficiency.
Key Words: Precision agriculture, recommendation
system, ensemble model, SVM, ANN, RANDOM TREE, NB-
classifier.
1. INTRODUCTION
India is characterized by small farms. Over 75% of total
land capitals within the country are less than 5 acres. Most
crops are rain nourished, with just about 45% of the land
irrigated. As per some estimations, about 55% of total
population of India depends on farming. In the US, because
of heavy mechanization of agriculture, it is about 5%.
India is one of the biggest producers of agricultural
products and still has very less farm productivity.
Productivity needs to be increased so that farmers can get
more pay from the same piece of land with less labour.
Precision agriculture provides a way to do it. Precision
farming , as the name implies, refers to the applying of
precise and proper total of comment like pee , fertilizers,
soil etc. at the proper time to the craw for increasing its
productivity and increasing its yields. Not all precision
agriculture systems offer best results. But in agriculture it
is important that the recommendations made are accurate
and precise because in case of errors it may lead to heavy
material and capital loss. Many researches are being
carried out, in order to attain an accurate and efficient
model for crop prediction. Ensembling is one such
technique that is included in such research works. Among
these various machine learning techniques that are being
used in this field; this paper proposes a system that uses
the voting method to build an efficient and accurate model.
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
The paper [1] states the requirements and planning
needed for developing a software model for precision
farming is discussed. It deeply studies the basics of
precision farming. The author’s start from the basics of
precision farming and move towards developing a model
that would support it. This paper describes a model that
applies Precision Agriculture (PA) principles to small, open
farms at the individual farmer and crop level, to affect a
degree of control over variability. The comprehensive
objective of the model is to deliver direct advisory services
to even the smallest farmer at the level of his/her smallest
plot of crop, using the most accessible technologies such as
SMS and email. This model has been designed for the
scenario in Kerala State where the average holding size is
much lower than most of India. Hence this model can be
positioned elsewhere in India only with some
modifications.
The paper [2] makes a qualified cogitation of
assortment algorithms and their performance in yield
prediction in precision husbandry. These algorithms are
implemented in a data set collected for several years in
yield prediction on soya bean crop. The algorithms used for
yield prediction in this paper are Support Vector Machine,
Random Forest, Neural Network, REPTree, Bagging, and
Bayes. The conclusion drawn at the end is that bagging is
the best algorithm for yield prediction among the above
stated algorithms since the error deviation in bagging is
minimum with a mean absolute error of 18985
The paper [3] shows the importance of crop selection
and the factors deciding the crop selection like production
rate, market price and government policies are discussed.
This paper proposes a Crop Selection Method (CSM) which
solves the crop selection problem and improves net yield
rate of the crop. It suggests a series of crop to be selected
over a season considering factors like weather, soil type,
water density, crop type. The predicted value of influential
parameters determines the accuracy of CSM. Hence there is
a need to include a prediction method with improved
accuracy and performance.
The paper [4] aims to solve the crucial problem of
selecting the classifiers for the ensemble learning. A
method to select a best classifier set from a pool of
classifiers has been proposed. The proposal aims to achieve
higher accuracy and performance. A method called SAD

was proposed based on accuracy and classification
performance. Using Q statistics, the dependency between
most relevant and accurate classifiers is identified. The
classifiers which were not chosen were combined to form
the ensemble. This measure is supposed to ensure higher
performance and diversity of the ensemble. Various
methods such as SA (Selection by Accuracy), SAD (Selection
by accuracy and Diversity) and NS (No selection) algorithm
were identified. Finally it is inferred that SAD works better
than others.
The paper [5] proposes various classification methods
to classify the liver disease data set. The paper emphasizes
the need for accuracy because it depends on the dataset
and the learning algorithm. Classification algorithms such
as Naïve Bayes, ANN, ZeroR and VFI were used to classify
these diseases and compare the effectiveness, correction
rate among them. The performance of the models where
compared with accuracy and computational time. It was
concluded that all the classifiers except naive bayes
showed improved predictive performance. Multilayer
perceptron show the highest accuracy among the proposed
algorithms.
The paper [6] tries to solve the problem of food
insecurity in Egypt. It proposes a framework which would
predict the production, and import for that particular year.
It uses Artificial Neural Networks along with Multi-layer
perceptron in WEKA to build the prediction. At the end of
the process we would be able to visualize the amount of
production import, need and availability. Therefore it
would help to make decisions on whether food has to be
further imported or not.
The soil datasets in paper [7] are analyzed and a
category is predicted. From the predicted soil category the
crop yield is identified as a Classification rule. Naïve Bayes
and KNN algorithms are used for crop yield prediction. The
future work stated is to create efficient models using
various classification techniques such as support vector
machine, principal component analysis.
3. METHODOLOGY
3.1 Dataset Collection
The dataset containing the soil specific attributes which
are collected from Polytest Laboratories soil testing lab,
Pune, Maharashtra, India. In addition, similar sources of
general crop data were also used from Marathwada
University. The crops considered in our model include
groundnut, pulses, cotton, vegetables, banana, paddy,
sorghum, sugarcane, coriander. The number of examples
of each crop available in the training dataset is shown. The
attributes considered where Depth, Texture, Ph, Soil Color,
Permeability, Drainage, Water holding and Erosion.
The above stated parameters of soil play a major role in
the crop's ability to remove water and nutrients from the
soil. For crop growth to their possible, the soil must
provide acceptable environment for it. Soil is the anchor of
the roots. The water holding capacity determines the
crop's ability to absorb nutrients and other nutrients that
are changed into ions, which is the form that the plant can
use. Texture determines how porous the soil is and the
comfort of air and water movement which is essential to
prevent the plants from becoming waterlogged. The level
of acidity or alkalinity (Ph) is a master variable which
affects the availability of soil nutrients. The activity of
microorganisms present in the soil and also the level of
exchangeable aluminum can be affected by PH. The water
holding and drainage determine the infiltration of roots.
Hence for the following reasons the above stated
parameters are considered for choosing a crop.
3.2 Crop Prediction using Ensembling technique
Ensemble is a data mining model also known as the Model
Combiners that combine the power of two or more models
to attain better prediction, efficiency than any of its
models could achieve alone. In our system, we use one of
the most familiar Ensembling technique called Majority
Voting technique .In the voting technique any number of
base learners can be used. There should be at least two
base learners. The learners are chosen in a way that they
are capable to each other yet being complimentary also.
Higher the competition higher is the chance of better
prediction. But it is necessary for the learners to be
complimentary because when one or few members make
an error, the probability of the remaining members
correcting this error would be high. Each learner builds
itself into a model. The model gets trained using the
training data set provided. When a new data has to be
classified, each model predicts the class on its own. Finally,
the class which is predicted by majority of the learners is
voted to be the class label of the new sample.
3.3 Learners Used in the Model
3.3.1 Support Vector machine
Support vector machines (SVM) is set of supervised
learning strategies used for classification, regression and
outlier’s discovery. it's a classification technique. Here, we
have a tendency to plot every information item as some
extent in n-dimensional house (where n is variety of
options you have) with the worth of every feature being
the worth of a selected coordinate. it's a classification
technique. during this algorithmic rule, we have a
tendency to plot every information item as some extent in
n-dimensional house (where n is variety of options you
have) with the worth of every feature being the worth of a
selected coordinate. A Support Vector Machine (SVM) is
discriminative classifier correctly bounded by a separating
hyperplane. In alternative words, given labeled coaching
information (supervised learning), the algorithmic rule
outputs associate degree best hyperplane that categorizes
new examples. Support vector simple machine (SVM) may

be a set of supervised learning strategies used for
classification, regression and outlier’s uncovering .
3.3.2 NAÏVE Bayes
It is not single algorithm, but a clan of algorithmic rules .
All naive Bayes socio-economic classifiers adopts that the
value of a particular feature is independent of the value of
any other feature, given the class variable. Naive Thomas
Bayes classifier could be a straightforward probabilistic
classifier that works supported applying theorem (from
Bayesian statistics) with robust naive independence
assumptions. it's a classification technique supported
Bayes’ theorem with associate degree assumption of
independence between predictors. In straightforward
terms, a Naive Thomas Bayes categoryifier assumes that
the presence of a specific feature in an exceedingly class is
dissimilar to the presence of the other feature. as an
example, a fruit could also be thought of to be associate
degree apple if it's red, round, and concerning a pair of
inches in diameter. Even if these features depend on each
other or upon the existence of the other features, a naive
Bayes classifier would consider all of these properties to
independently contribute to the probability that this fruit
is an apple. These Learners predict the class label for each
of the training data set. The class label that is predicted by
the majority of the models is voted through the majority
voting technique and the class label of the training data set
is decided. From the ensembled models the rules are
generated.
3.3.3 Multi-layer Perceptron (Artificial Neural
Network)
Multi Layer perceptron (MLP) could be a feed forward
neural network with several layers between input and end
product layer. Feed forward implies that knowledge
period in one direction from input to output layer. MLPs
square measure typically used for pattern classification,
recognition, anticipation and approximation. Associate
ANN relies on a set of connected units or nodes referred to
as artificial neurons (analogous to biological neurons in
associate animal brain). every association (synapse)
between neurons will transmit an indication from one to a
different. The receiving (postsynaptic) somatic cell will
method the signal(s) then signal neurons connected to
that. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) or connectionist
systems square measure computing systems galvanized by
the biological neural networks that represent animal
brains
In Neural Networks some nodes use a nonlinear activation
operate that was developed to model the frequency of
action potentials, or firing, of biological neurons. for
instance, in image recognition, they could learn to spot
pictures that contain cats by analyzing example pictures
that are manually labelled as "cat" or "no cat" and
exploitation the results to spot cats in different pictures.
they are doing this with none a priori information
concerning cats, e.g., that they have fur, tails, whiskers and
cat-like faces. Instead, they evolve their own set of
relevant characteristics from the learning material that
they process.
3.3.4 Random Forest
Random forests square measure associate ensemble
learning methodology for classification, regression and
different tasks, that operate by building a mess of call trees
at coaching time and outputting the category that's the
mode of the categories or mean prediction of the
individual trees. Random call forests correct for call tree
custom of over fitting to their coaching set. the primary
rule for random call forests was created by Tin Kam Ho
victimization the random mathematical space
methodology, which, in Ho's formulation, could be a
thanks to implement the "stochastic discrimination"
approach to classification projected by Eugene Kleinberg.
associate addition of the rule was developed by Leo
Breiman and Adele bargainer, and "Random Forests" is
their trademark. The addition combines Breiman's
"bagging" plan and random choice of options, introduced
1st by Ho and later severally by Amit and Geman so as to
construct a group of call trees with controlled variance.
though random forests are naturally designed to figure
solely with third-dimensional information, it's been shown
that one may use them for random objects with the
employment of solely pairwise similarities between
objects.
Random Forest could be a trademark term for associate
ensemble of call trees. Random Forest is assortment of call
trees (so called Forest). To classify a replacement object
supported attributes, every tree offers a categoryification
and that we say the tree votes for that class.
3.4 Rules induced from the Model
The rule below demonstrates an example of the proposed
recommendation system.
IF ph is mild alkaline
AND depth is above 90
AND water holding capacity is LOW
AND drainage is moderate
AND erosion is LOW
THEN PADDY
The IF part of the rule states the soil specifications needed
for the cultivation of the recommended crop which is
specified in the THEN PART of the rule.
4. CONCLUSION
Our work would help farmers to increase productivity in
agriculture, prevent soil degradation in cultivated land,
and reduce chemical use in crop production and efficient
use of water resources. Our future work is aimed at an

improved data set with large number of attributes and
also implements yield prediction.
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