Crop Recommendation System by Artificial Neural Network

The agriculture yield mostly depends on climate factors. Any information associated with climatic factors will help farmers in foreordained farming. Choosing a right crop at right time is most important to get proper yield. To help the farmers in decision making process a classification model is built by considering the agro climatic parameters of a crop like temperature, relative humidity, type of soil, soil pH and crop duration and a recommendation system is built based on three factors namely crop, type of crop and the districts. Predicting the districts is the novel approach in which crop pattern of 33 districts of Tamilnadu is marked and based on that classification model is built. Thorough analysis of machine learning algorithms incorporating pre-processing, data augmentation and comparison of optimizers and activation function of ANN. Log loss metric is used to validate the models. The results shows that artificial neural network is the best predictive model for classification of crops crop type and district based on agrometeorological climatic condition. The accuracy of artificial neural network model is compared with five different machine learning algorithms to analyse the performance.