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Agentic AI for smart and sustainable precision agriculture

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : Frontiers Media SA

Source : Frontiers in Plant Science

Url : https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1706428

Campus : Amaravati

School : School of Computing

Department : Computer Science and Engineering

Year : 2026

Abstract : Introduction Ensuring smarter and more sustainable farming practices is a critical challenge in modern agriculture. Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AAI), combined with Precision Agriculture (PA) and Federated Learning (FL), has the potential to enhance decision-making, optimize resource utilization, and reduce environmental impact. Methods This study proposes an AAI based framework for precision agriculture that integrates distributed sensing devices, intelligent agents, and federated learning to enable real time monitoring and decision support at the farm level. A practical deployment architecture is outlined, detailing inter-device communication and localized intelligence. The proposed model is evaluated across two distinct datasets tomato disease classification and weed detection. The model is designed to have DenseNet121, MobileNetV2, EfficientDet-D0, and YOLOv8 as local models within a federated learning environment. Results The federated global model achieved an accuracy of 96.4%, outperforming individual client models, with DenseNet121 and MobileNetV2 attaining accuracies of 95.0% and 93.9%, respectively. For weed species detection, EfficientDet-D0 demonstrated superior performance, achieving an mAP@0.5 of 0.978, average precision of 0.865, and an F1-score of 0.961, compared to YOLOv8 with an mAP@0.5 of 0.956 and an F1-score of 0.935. Discussion The results confirm the feasibility and effectiveness of integrating AAI with federated learning for intelligent precision agriculture. A SWOT analysis highlights the strengths of the proposed approach, along with deployment challenges and constraints. Overall, this study establishes a roadmap for future research, emphasizing sustainable intelligent farming systems.

Cite this Research Publication : Parvathaneni Naga Srinivasu, Aruna Pavate, G. JayaLakshmi, Jana Shafi, Jaeyoung Choi, Muhammad Fazal Ijaz, Agentic AI for smart and sustainable precision agriculture, Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers Media SA, 2026, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1706428

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