Analysis of Soil Behaviour and Prediction of Crop Yield Using Data Mining Approach

Yield prediction is very popular among farmers these days, which particularly contributes to the proper selection of crops for sowing. This makes the problem of predicting the yielding of crops an interesting challenge. Earlier yield prediction was performed by considering the farmer's experience on a particular field and crop. This work presents a system, which uses data mining techniques in order to predict the category of the analyzed soil datasets. The category, thus predicted will indicate the yielding of crops. The problem of predicting the crop yield is formalized as a classification rule, where Naive Bayes and K-Nearest Neighbor methods are used.