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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Academic year 2024-2025 (ODD SEMESTER)

Year/ Sem/ Branch : IV/VII / AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Subject code and Name : AI3021 & IT IN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM

UNIT I PRECISION FARMING

Precision agriculture and agricultural management – Ground based sensors, Remote sensing,
GPS, GIS and mapping software, Yield mapping systems, Crop production modeling.
QUESTION BANK
PART-A
1.
What is the necessity of Precision farming? [CO1,LOT,K1]
2. In what way Remote sensing data is helpful in identifying the
[CO1,LOT,K1]
stage of the crop?
3. What are the technologies that can be applied in precision
[CO1,LOT,K1]
agricultural production?
4.
Explain the need for the crop growth models. [CO1,LOT,K2]
5. Explain briefly the types of crop growth models used in plant
[CO1,HOT,K5]
production.
6.
What is the necessary for remote sensing in irrigation? [CO1,LOT,K1]
7.
What is yield mapping in agriculture? [CO1,LOT,K1]
8.
What is crop production modeling? [CO1,LOT,K1]
9.
Define Geographic Information Database. [CO1,LOT,K1]
10.
What is the purpose of yield mapping system in agriculture? [CO1,LOT,K1]
11.
What are the objectives of precision farming? [CO1,LOT,K1]
12. [CO1,LOT,K1]
What are the components of remote sensing?
13. [CO1,LOT,K1]
Define GIS.
14. [CO1,LOT,K1]
Define GPS.
15. [CO1,LOT,K1]
List some ground based sensors.

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 16. How to identify nitrogen content of the soil in precision [CO1,LOT,K1]
agriculture?
17. How do ground based sensors detect and measure [CO1,LOT,K1]
environmental parameters?
18. [CO1,LOT,K1]
What is agricultural management?
19. [CO1,HOT,K5]
Explain the limitations of remote sensing in agriculture.
20. [CO1,LOT,K1]
What is remote sensing?

PART-B

1. How do yield mapping systems utilize GPS technology to record

[CO1,HOT,K4]
data accurately?
2. How to classify the stage of crop and vegetative cover using
[CO1,HOT,K4]
remote sensing technique in agricultural Engineering?
3. Explain the methods used in creating GIS information system for
[CO1,HOT,K4]
precision forming?
4. How the Remote Sensing technique is applied in estimation of
[CO1,HOT,K4]
crop production?
5. Describe in details of the crop yield mapping with respect to the
[CO1,HOT,K4]
space and time variation.
6. How to estimate the crop production using the remote sensing
[CO1,HOT,K4]
technique?
7. Explain briefly the soil moisture simulation model and indicate
[CO1,HOT,K4]
the important parameters used in the model.
8.
How to predict the yield in precision agriculture? [CO1,HOT,K4]
9.
Explain the applications of remote sensing in agriculture. [CO1,HOT,K4]
10.
Explain the components of precision farming. [CO1,HOT,K4]
 UNIT II ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS

Artificial light systems, management of crop growth in greenhouses, simulation of CO2 consumption in
greenhouses, on-line measurement of plant growth in the greenhouse, models of plant production and expert
systems in horticulture.
QUESTION BANK
UNIT II – ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
PART-A
1. Define Crop growth management practice. [CO2,LOT,K1]
2. Define carbon credit. [CO2,LOT,K2]
3. What are artificial light systems? [CO2,LOT,K2]
4. Differentiate between green house effect and artificial light effect
[CO2,LOT,K2]
in agriculture.
5. What do you mean by carbon account? [CO2,LOT,K2]
6. How to estimate crop growth reliability? [CO2,LOT,K2]
7. Name the factors which affect the plant production models. [CO2,LOT,K2]
8. What is the role of CO2 in greenhouse gas management? [CO2,LOT,K2]
9. What are all the factors that influence the Greenhouse effect? [CO2,LOT,K1]
10. Why carbon credit accounts made for an industry? [CO2,LOT,K2]
11. List the climatic factors which affect the Evapotranspiration. [CO2,LOT,K2]
12. How to determine the heat loss from a green house? [CO2,LOT,K2]

13. [CO2,LOT,K2]
Why should we concern about the environmental flow in a
river?
14. Compare and contrast protected and controlled environmental [CO2,LOT,K2]
agriculture.
15. What are the advantages and disadvantages of on-line growth [CO2,LOT,K2]
measurement in a agricultural system?
16. What are expert systems? [CO2,LOT,K2]
17. What is greenhouse gas effect? [CO2,LOT,K2]

18. What is horticulture? [CO2,LOT,K2]

19. Define carbon cycle. [CO2,LOT,K2]
20. What is the purpose of online measurement of plant growth in [CO2,LOT,K2]
greenhouse?
 PART-B

1. What is the need for heating system in greenhouse? Explain

[CO2,HOT,K4]
briefly the types of heating systems in greenhouse.
2. Explain briefly the factors affecting crop growth management. [CO2,HOT,K4]
3. What is the need for summer cooling? Explain briefly the types
[CO2,HOT,K4]
of summer cooling equipments used in greenhouse.
4. Explain briefly environmental pollution which affects the growth
of the crop. Also describe the methods of controlling ground [CO2,HOT,K4]
water contamination from the non- point source of pollution.
5. [CO2,HOT,K4]
Explain the components of carbon cycle.
6. List the external factors that disturbs the natural cycle. [CO2,HOT,K4]
7. How to identify the pollution which affects the agricultural
[CO2,LOT,K2]
production?
8. Explain the importance of light spectrum and intensity in
[CO2,LOT,K2]
artificial light systems for plant growth.
9.
Explain the concept of plant growth model in plant production. [CO2,LOT,K2]
10.
Explain the necessity of artificial light systems in agriculture. [CO2,LOT,K2]
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UNIT III - AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Agricultural systems - managerial overview, Reliability of agricultural systems, Simulation of crop

growth and field operations, Optimizing the use of resources, Linear programming, Project
scheduling, Artificial intelligence and decision support systems.
PART-A
1. Why decision support system is required in agricultural
[CO3,LOT,K1]
production?
2.
Distinguish between artificial intelligence and knowledge base. [CO3,LOT,K2]
3.
List the climatic factors that affect Evapotranspiration. [CO3,LOT,K2]
4. How to create the database management system for climate
[CO3,LOT,K2]
change data?
5.
What is Optimization? [CO3,LOT,K2]
6.
Write short notes on linear programming. [CO3,LOT,K2]
7.
What are the components of agricultural systems? [CO3,LOT,K2]
8.
What is artificial intelligence? [CO3,LOT,K2]
9.
How artificial intelligence is used in decisions support systems? [CO3,LOT,K3]
10.
Define linear programming. [CO3,LOT,K1]
11.
What are the different approaches used for project scheduling? [CO3,LOT,K2]
12. [CO3,LOT,K1]
What is reliability?
13. [CO3,LOT,K1]
What are the objectives of using optimization?
14. [CO3,LOT,K2]
What is the purpose for simulating crop growth in agriculture?
15. [CO3,LOT,K2]
What is project scheduling?
16. [CO3,LOT,K2]
What are agricultural systems?
17. [CO3,LOT,K1]
Define GCM.
18. [CO3,LOT,K2]
What is agricultural system management?
19. [CO3,LOT,K1]
Define simulation.
20. [CO3,LOT,K2]
What are the factors affecting simulation of crop growth?

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PART-B

1. Explain briefly about reliability analysis of irrigation flow data

with respect to head, middle and tall reaches of the distribution [CO3,HOT,K2]
system.
2. Explain briefly the schematic diagram for developing irrigation
[CO3,HOT,K2]
management decision support system.
3. Modernization of agricultural and irrigation through Management
information system and E-Commerce. “Explain with appropriate [CO3,HOT,K6]
example for agricultural management.
4. How environmental factors such as climate change and soil [CO3,HOT,K3]
quality do affects agricultural systems?
5. Explain the components and working of Decision support [CO3,HOT,K2]
systems.
6.
Explain the limitations of linear programming. [CO3,HOT,K2]
7. Explain the procedure involved in developing decision support
[CO3,HOT,K2]
system for an agricultural system.
8.
Explain why reliability is important in agricultural systems. [CO3,HOT,K2]
9. Develop a crop growth simulation model for a specific crop based
[CO3,HOT,K6]
on historical weather data and soil characteristics.
10. How do environmental factors and market dynamics affect
[CO3,HOT,K2]
managerial decision making in agriculture?

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 UNIT IV - WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS

Importance of climate variability and seasonal forecasting, Understanding and predicting world’s climate
system, Global climatic models and their potential for seasonal climate forecasting, General systems approach
to applying seasonal climate forecasts.
PART-A

1.
What is weather forecasting? [CO4,LOT,K1]
2.
What is the role of weather forecasting in crop management? [CO4,LOT,K1]
3.
What are the methods of forecasting? [CO4,LOT,K1]
4.
What are the importance of climatic variability? [CO4,LOT,K1]
5.
What is meant by seasonal forecasting? [CO4,LOT,K1]
6.
What are weather prediction models? [CO4,LOT,K1]
7.
What are global climatic models? [CO4,LOT,K1]
8.
Write any three weather forecasting tools? [CO4,LOT,K1]
9.
Explain numerical weather prediction techniques. [CO4,LOT,K2]
10.
What is Global climatic model? [CO4,LOT,K2]
11. [CO4,LOT,K2]
What are the different types of global climatic models?
12. [CO4,LOT,K2]
What are global climatic models used for?
13. [CO4,LOT,K2]
What are the components of climatic model?
14. [CO4,LOT,K2]
How do climatic models work?
15. [CO4,LOT,K2]
What are the uses of computer in weather forecasting?
16. Why seasonal forecasting is important? [CO4,LOT,K2]

17. What are the advantages of weather forecasting? [CO4,LOT,K2]

18. Define Climatology. [CO4,LOT,K1]

19. What are the limitations of weather forecasting? [CO4,LOT,K2]

20. What are the applications of weather forecasting satellites? [CO4,LOT,K2]

 PART-B

1. Explain the meteorological data observed in a weather station in

[CO4,HOT,K4]
order to estimate the climate change.
2. Explain the procedure to create the database management system
[CO4,HOT,K4]
to store and retrieval of the climatic data.
3. What is the basic principle involved in global ‘Climatic Models’? [CO4,HOT,K4]
4. Evaluate the effectiveness of using historical data to predict future [CO4,HOT,K4]
crop performance in different regions.
5. Explain weather forecasting methods. [CO4,HOT,K4]

6. Explain the role of GCM. [CO4,HOT,K4]

7. How do weather prediction models incorporate observations data [CO4,HOT,K4]

to improve forecast accuracy?
8. Analyze the outputs of seasonal climatic forecasting models to [CO4,HOT,K6]
identify trends and patterns in forecasted climatic variables.
9. Explain the importance of climate variability and seasonal [CO4,LOT,K2]
forecasting.
10. Explain weather forecasting tools in detail. [CO4,HOT,K4]
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UNIT V - E-GOVERNANCE IN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Expert systems, decision support systems, Agricultural and biological databases, e-commerce, ebusiness systems &
applications, Technology enhanced learning systems and solutions, elearning, Rural development and information
society
PART-A
1. Define an expert system. [CO5,LOT,K2]

2. What is the difference between e-business and e-commerce? [CO5,LOT,K2]

3. What do you mean by rural development database? [CO5,LOT,K2]

4. List the salient components of developing e-business systems. [CO5,LOT,K2]

5. What are the basic features of e-learning? [CO5,LOT,K2]

6. What are the key components of a learning management system? [CO5,LOT,K2]

7. What is database? [CO5,LOT,K2]

8. Write any two e-learning platforms. [CO5,LOT,K2]

9. What is the purpose of database? [CO5,LOT,K2]

10. Name three examples of widely used biological database. [CO5,HOT,K2]

11. What is e- governance? [CO5,HOT,K2]

12. What is DSS? [CO5,LOT,K2]

13. Describe the role of government policies in developing agriculture. [CO5,LOT,K2]

14. Write short notes on information society. [CO5,LOT,K2]

How to adopt e-governance in current day irrigation business
15. [CO5,HOT,K6]
management?
16. List out the functional requirements for knowledge base expert system. [CO5,LOT,K1]

17. What is the importance of technology enhanced learning systems? [CO5,LOT,K2]

18. What are the benefits of e-learning? [CO5,LOT,K2]

19. What are the limitations of e-learning? [CO5,LOT,K2]

20. How does improved access information and technology contribute [CO5,HOT,K6]
to economic development in rural areas?
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PART-B
1. [CO5,HOT,K4]
State the functional requirements for knowledge base expert system.
2. How to adopt e-governance for current day irrigation business [CO5,HOT,K6]
management?
3. [CO5,HOT,K4]
Explain briefly the application of expert system in Horticulture.
4. Explain briefly about the factors affecting the agricultural system and [CO5,HOT,K4]
ASM’s decision making process
5. [CO5,HOT,K4]
Explain Rural development and information society.
6. How do expert systems use rules and interference engines to make [CO5,HOT,K4]
decisions?
7. Describe the role of information and communication technologies in [CO5,HOT,K4]
enabling e-governance initiatives in agriculture.
8. How do expert systems use rules and interference engines to make [CO5,HOT,K4]
decisions?
9. [CO5,LOT,K2]
Write about agricultural and biological database.
10. Explain how e-governance facilitate better communication between [CO5,HOT,K6]
government agencies and farmers in rural areas.
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