Farming is the broadest monetary and assumes as a critical part in general financial advancement of a country. Technological headway in this field of agribusiness will find a way to cultivating exercises. Smart farming has a potential to deliver a productive and sustainable agricultural production, based on a precise and resource efficient approach. Smart farming is an improvement that underscores the utilization of data and correspondence innovation in the digital physical farm administration cycle. New advancements for example the internet of things and cloud computing are relied upon to use this improvement and present more robots and computerized reasoning in cultivation. This is done by the big data gigantic volumes of information with a wide assortment that can be caught, broken down and utilized for basic leadership. This survey expects pick up understanding into the nest in data applications in smart farming and distinguish the financial difficulties to be tended to.

Around 60-70% of populace in India rely on the Agriculture division. In India, the water management system used in agriculture is obsolete which is causing poor usage of water resources. In some places, faulty techniques are used which results in under-usage or over-usage of water which impacts on the production of crops and decreases the yield. Not only this, proper education or knowledge is not spread to the farmers which will help them increase their production and business by knowing information regarding the soil type and moisture content which is required for a particular crop. Giving modern touch to the agriculture methods is of utmost importance because of the need in agriculture and food for the people to survive. Use of far-reaching and profound technologies such as IoT and cloud computing for modernizing and improving the traditional/ long established/ conventional agricultural methods can control the cost, maintenance and provide greater expertise regarding production, quality of seeds, fertilizers, weed, pest control and irrigation. The latest technology like configurable wireless networks, sensors, and other cloud computing resources can be used to build and establish sustainable cloud services for betterment of agriculture.