Comparison between Manual Irrigation System and Automatic Irrigation System Based-on Soil Moisture

— Food productivity is one of the vital factors of human's need. Nowadays, food productivity rate is unsustainable with the food demand. The crop's quality and quantity tend to get lower as the climate starts getting extremely erratic. The degradation of quality and quantity are also depended on the decreasing number of the farmer. This condition is also worsened by the water scarcity. To prevent the deterioration, we need to take a deeper look on what matters on the crop's growth which is soil moisture. Soil moisture can dissolve the minerals in soil to help crops meet their nutritional needs. The research alternative way of maintaining the soil moisture is to have an automatic irrigation system using microcontroller and soil moisture sensors. This technology can increase the effectiveness of water usage on irrigation system. From this experiment, we have observed that the automatic irrigation system can provide a sustainable water resources to keep the soil moisture stable.