A Survey on Expert System in Agriculture

Agriculture sector of Indian Economy is one of the most significant parts of India. And it is the largest contributor to India’s GDP. But for the last few decades there is a large in degradation in overall agricultural production. This is due to certain problems faced by rural farmer lack of education and emerging technology. The information technology opens a new door to bring the agricultural researches, extensions to rural area farmers by means of a technique-Expert System. The expert system [1] is an important application of Artificial Intelligence. This type of system exploit the specialized skills and knowledge held by of a group of people on specific domain hence it is called knowledge based system[2] Expert system can be treated as a powerful tool for an average Indian farmer to get relevant information about agro management. This survey gives an overview for the expert systems and methodologies