Development of Moisture Meter for Copra

In India about 70% people are living in rural areas and are still dependent on agriculture. In the year 2014-15, 1975.81 hectares of area is used for cultivating coconuts in India. One of the important issue with agriculture crop sector is, estimating the price of major crops (copra, cardamom, pepper etc.) based on its dryness. This is currently done purely based on the experience of the estimator. Price of the crop is depending on the dryness of the crop. But in majority cases the farmers dont get enough money for their crop because of this dryness issues. The farmers spending lot of time, energy and man power if the drying process is not stopped when the ideal moisture percentage (different for different crop) is reached. The challenge exists in most food crops that are dried for preservation or processing. This paper proposes a low cost solution to the above problem which is a cost effective multipurpose Portable Capacitative Digital Agro Moisture Meter it uses a novel technology to analyze the moisture content of various agricultural crops. Farmer can use this product to estimate the dryness of their agricultural crop and thereby they will get enough money for their cultivate.