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Since the early dawn of civilization, agriculture has been an intrinsic part of human life. When we look at the modern farming arena, we observe that this is rapidly changing. With the increased demand and rising production costs, farmers are looking for modern farming equipment's that could help them in cutting the cost and even reducethe labor hours. One such modern agricultural tool which is rising on horizon of agricultural advancements is an RF based AGriculturalRObot (AG-RO). These Autonomous robots are creating abundant curiosity and driving some of the great enthusiasts for its development from different dimensions of engineering. In this paper, we are implanting autonomous robotic machines to carry out agricultural tasks. This robot will be used to perform agricultural operations such as ploughing, seed sowing and water sprinkling. The objectives of the proposed system are to dig the soil, to plough the seeds and to provide irrigation system by spraying water with a pump automatically. The robot constitutes of ARM controller along with a geared dc motor and an RF decoder for driving the motor, a remote which consists of an assembly of switch array to send signals for designated movement, a microcontroller, an RF encoder, a pump and water sprinkler arrangement.The RF modules used here are STT-433 MHz Transmitter, STR-433 MHz Receiver, HT12E RF Encoder and HT12D RF Decoder. The control switches are interfaced to the RF transmitter through RF encoder. The encoder continuously reads the status of the switches, passes the data to the RF transmitter which then transmits the data to the AG-RO.