Kanpur, 31 May: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has created such a device which will give information about the health of the soil in just 90 seconds. This device has been launched by Agronext company and will soon be available to the farmers in the markets.
The team of Pallava Prince, Ashar Ahmed, Yashasvi Khemani and Mohammad Amir Khan, led by Professor Jayant Kumar Singh of Chemical Department of the IIT Kanpur invented a device last year.
The IIT Kanpur signed an MoU with agritech company Agronext to launch this device or rather this earth tester rapid soil test. The company launched the device at a grand event in the auditorium of IIT Kanpur’s Start-up Innovation and Incubation Center (SIIC) Noida to make it available in the market for farmers.
Now this device will soon be available to the farmers and farmers will be able to get all the information related to the health of their soil easily in less time.
Director says
Director of the IIT Kanpur Prof Abhay Karandikar said that our primary objective with the land tester tool is to provide relief to our farmers in terms of testing the health of their soil. This is a task which is usually very difficult for them as they have to depend on laboratories away from home. We are proud to share that now that the device has been launched as a product, it will be a huge boon for our farmers to reduce the hassle of testing their soil.
This is how the device will work
The Director informed that this is a first of its kind new device which is capable of detecting soil health in just 90 seconds through an embedded mobile application. It will help farmers to achieve soil health standards of agricultural fields along with recommended dosage of fertilizers without going to the laboratory.
โThe device is based on Near Infrared Spectroscopy technology, which provides real-time soil analysis reports on a smartphone with an embedded mobile application named GeoParikshak, available on Google Play Store,โ Director added.
