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More than 70% of Indian population relies on agriculture for their sustenance. Irrigation is an artificial application of water to land for agricultural or landscape purposes. Smart Agriculture helps to reduce wastage, effective usage of fertilizer and hence increases the crop yield. In order to know what amount of water is required at what time to the soil smart and automatic irrigation was designed and developed and brought into use. This abstract tells about a Smart Irrigation System using an Arduino microcontroller to automate and optimize a water irrigation system, reducing the need for manual labor and improving water efficiency. In this smart irrigation a system is developed to monitor agriculture field using sensors (moisture and temperature sensor), pump, motor, LCD, fan which automatically communicate through Arduino. The moisture sensor detects the soil moisture and provides exact amount of water needed. If the temperature exceeds above certain degrees a fan is placed to maintain the heat to avoid crops from drying and losing its moisture.