Fecha de publicación: 05/11/2021 Fuente: Wipo "precision farming" Research studies shows that the current world population of 7.3 billion is expected to increase to 9.3 billion by the ear 2050. In order to feed the increasing population, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), plans to increase the crop cultivation by 70%. Recent days have seen a steep rise in the adoption of IoT to various factors affecting agriculture like climate change monitoring, greenhouse automation, crop cultivation and management, cattle monitoring and management, precision farming, agricultural drones, predictive analysis for smart farming and many more. This invention discloses a Data-driven smart IoT system to help farmers for effective decision making on the choice of the crop to be cultivated in the given time. IoT sensors are capable to predict the humidity in the soil, nature of chemical resources that are apt for cultivation and weather forecasting. These data from IoT sensors are communicated to real-time dashboards and plug-ins using HTTP/COAD/MQTT protocol. Data Science is applied to data from the dashboard and analytics framework is generated. The analytics framework provides suggestions of the choice of the crop the farmer can cultivate and the predicted time to harvest the crop. The data analytics assists farmers for effective decision making during the phases of pre-harvest, farming and post-harvest.