Solar Powered Irrigation System

Abstract

Agriculture and farming are not saturated to just farmers as there are variety of crops and plants that are produced in a large scale to fulfill the requirement of day-by-day growing population as there are various varieties of plants they all require specific environment to grow, and so, they all need proper fertilizers and water content. Farming is usually done by using manual methods that sometimes causes excess use of water or fertilizers which in turn results in wastage of water even sometimes if water is not supplied properly crops do not tend to grow at their full extend. Usually, pumps are used for irrigation, which requires ample amount of energy for large fields, and usually, diesel or electricity is used to run those pumps. As these manual methods consume a lot amount of energy and lead to problems like shortage of water and flooding some times because of manual controlling, we have chosen to select automatic controlling of irrigation powered by solar energy. Solar energy is a renewable source of energy, which is available to us and can be converted into usable form by using photovoltaic cells, so we have incorporated solar cells to save energy in our irrigation system.