DOI: 10.4018/IJAEIS.2019070105 International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems Volume 10 • Issue 3 • July-September 2019 Copyright © 2019, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. 72 State of the Art and Gap Analysis of Precision Agriculture: A Case Study of Indian Farmers Vaibhav Bhatnagar, Amity Institute of Information Technology, Amity University Rajasthan-Jaipur, Rajasthan, India Ramesh C. Poonia, Amity Institute of Information Technology, Amity University Rajasthan-Jaipur, Rajasthan, India Surendra Sunda, ISRO-India, Bangalore, India ABSTRACT Precision Agriculture (PA) is now becoming the base for rapid development of a nation. So many technologies are used in precision agriculture such as Global Positioning System (GPS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Sensor Network and Geographical Information System (GIS). This manuscript per the authors will review all the factors that influence the precision agriculture. This article describes the major endeavors in the past of precision agriculture. The noble intention behind this literature review and analogy is to figure out the gap between theoretical research and actual needs of farmers. In order to find out the actual requirements manuscripts per the authors have conducted a questionnaire in Rajasthan State of India. This gap analysis would be helpful for researchers to design an effective and efficient decision support system for irrigation and fertilization can be designed for Indian farmers. KEywoRdS AI, GIS, GPS, Image Processing, Indian Agriculture System, Indian Farmers, IOT, Precision Agriculture, Rajasthan Farmers, Smart Agriculture, Smart Farming, Survey Study of Farmers 1. INTRodUCTIoN India is the land of agriculture, where most of the income depends upon agriculture. According to the survey of India Brand Equity Foundation, 58% of total population has agriculture as primary source of livelihood and INR 17.67 Trillion is estimated as contribution in Total GDP of Indian economy. Integration of computer science and information technology can play a magnificent role in improving the quality of agriculture process. This integration is known as Precision Agriculture (McBratney, Ancev, & Bouma, 2005). Large number of technologies such as Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Geographical Information System, Sensor Network and Global Positioning System are included in Precision Agriculture. The first objective of the paper is to review of research work done in the field of precision agriculture, second objective is to compare the research work done in overseas with India, third objective is to analysis the gap between research work published and real implementation of PA by Indian farmers. Followed by Introduction this paper is comprises with component of agriculture, review of past endeavors, broach from literature survey, analysis of gap using questionnaire, conclusion and future work. This article, originally published under IGI Global’s copyright on July 1, 2019 will proceed with publication as an Open Access article starting on February 4, 2021 in the gold Open Access journal, International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (converted to gold Open Access January 1, 2021), and will be distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and production in any medium, provided the author of the original work and original publication source are properly credited.