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Workshop: 3rd Workshop on practical ML for Developing Countries: learning under limited/low resource scenarios

What Should I Grow Today so I Make Money Tomorrow? Supporting Small Farmers’ Crop Planning with Social, Environmental, and Market Data

Aviva Prins · Christine Herlihy · John P Dickerson


Abstract:

In India, the majority of farmers are classified as small or marginal, and their livelihoods are vulnerable to climate risk. One approach to mitigating this problem is via drip-irrigated greenhouses. We aim to build an optimization-based decision support tool that provides crop planning advice to farmers in conjunction with a nonprofit in India. We propose a Markov decision process approach for this low-resource sector, and discuss key evaluation metrics for the design and implementation phases of our project.

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