Crop Yield Prediction using Machine Learning Algorithm

Abstract

Agriculture is the pillar of the Indian economy and more than 50% of India's population are dependent on agriculture for their survival. Variations in weather, climate, and other such environmental conditions have become a major risk for the healthy existence of agriculture. Machine learning (ML) plays a significant role as it has decision support tool for Crop Yield Prediction (CYP) including supporting decisions on what crops to grow and what to do during the growing season of the crops. The present research deals with a systematic review that extracts and synthesize the features used for CYP and furthermore, there are a variety of methods that were developed to analyze crop yield prediction using artificial intelligence techniques. The major limitations of the Neural Network are reduction in the relative error and decreased prediction efficiency of Crop Yield. Similarly, supervised learning techniques were incapable to capture the nonlinear bond between input and output variables faced a problem during the selection of fruits grading or sorting. Many studies were recommended for agriculture development and the goal was to create an accurate and efficient model for crop classification such as crop yield estimation based on the weather, crop disease, classification of crops based on the growing phase etc., This paper explores various ML techniques utilized in the field of crop yield estimation and provided a detailed analysis in terms of accuracy using the techniques.