Abstract
Climate change is impacting milk production worldwide. For instance, increased heat stress in cows is causing average-sized dairy farms losing thousands of milk gallons each year; drastic climate change, especially in developing countries, pushing small farmers, farmers with less than 10 to 25 cattle, below the poverty line and is triggering suicides due to economic stress and social stigma. It’s profoundly clear that current dairy agriculture practices are falling short to counter the impacts of climate change. What we need are innovative and intelligent dairy farming techniques that employ best of traditional practices with data infused insights to counter negative effects of climate change. To achieve innovative and intelligent dairy farming techniques, we need to disseminate state of art data science to masses. In other word, provide the state of art data science algorithms to every food harvesting citizen data scientist, farmer. The democratization of artificial intelligence to farmers, importantly, is not only empowers farmers to understand the patterns and signatures of climate change but also provides the ability to forecast the impending climate change adverse events and recommends data driven insights to counter the negative effects of climate change. With the availability of new data tools, farmers can not only improve their standard of life but also conquer, importantly, perennial “climate change related suicide” issue. It’s our staunch believe that the gold standard for the success of the democratization of artificial intelligence is no farmer life loss due to negative effects of climate change. In this paper, we propose an innovative machine learning Sensor edge approach that considers the impact of climate change and develops artificial intelligent (AI) models that is validated globally but enables localized solution to thwart impacts of climate change. The paper presents prototyping dairy IoT sensor solution design as well as its application and certain experimental results.
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Small Farmers make Big Contributions - https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=23184.
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Strategies for the Bottom of the Pyramid: Creating Sustainable Development - http://pdf.wri.org/2001summit_hartarticle.pdf.
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Industrial Agriculture and Small Scale Farming - https://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/industrial-agriculture-and-small-scale-farming.html.
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Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations – http://www.fao.org/india/fao-in-india/india-at-a-glance/en/.
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India’s shocking farmer suicide epidemic - https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/05/india-shocking-farmer-suicide-epidemic-150513121717412.html.
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How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-machine-learning-could-help-to-improve-climate-forecasts/.
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Suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian Farmers linked to climate change, study claims - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/31/suicides-of-nearly-60000-indian-farmers-linked-to-climate-change-study-claims.
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59,000 farmer suicides in India over 30 years may be linked to climate change, study says https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/01/59000-farmer-suicides-in-india-over-three-decades-may-be-linked-to-climate-change-study-says/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f62a830a292a.
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Why are America’s farmers killing themselves? - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/06/why-are-americas-farmers-killing-themselves-in-record-numbers.
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Suicidal Dairy Farmers should consider Marijuana Industry - https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeadams/2018/03/16/suicidal-dairy-farmers-should-consider-marijuana-industry/#689e08651d1e.
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As Milk Prices Decline, Worries about Dairy Farmers Suicides rise - https://www.npr.org/2018/02/27/586586267/as-milk-prices-decline-worries-about-dairy-farmer-suicides-rise.
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A Booming Economy with a price tag - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/20/world/australia/rural-suicides-farmers-globalization.html.
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Strategies for the Bottom of the Pyramid - http://pdf.wri.org/2001summit_hartarticle.pdf.
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NOAA - https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/.
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National Weather Services - https://www.weather.gov/safety/cold-wind-chill-warning.
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Vuppalapati, C., Ilapakurti, A., Kedari, S., Vuppalapati, R., Vuppalapati, J., Kedari, S. (2020). Democratization of AI to Small Scale Farmers, Albeit Food Harvesting Citizen Data Scientists, that Are at the Bottom of the Economic Pyramid. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W., Vergnano, A., Leali, F., Taiar, R. (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2020. IHSI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39512-4_55
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