The agricultural farming are rapidly increasing the challenges due to various environment, climate change and complex agricultural ecosystems. Nowadays, the cutting edge technologies are used to monitor the environment continuously and send the data to the cloud server in large volume to make further study.  The international Data Corporation (IDC) forecast the total amount of data worldwide around 175 Zettabytes by 2025. The internet, sensor devices and data analytics paves the way for better performance, advanced resources planning and enhanced production in all industries. The agriculture is the most important and essential need for the world to invest and make research to strengthen the yield, crop disease control, farming community and advance agricultural production. The recent reports from world food and agricultural organization indicates t hat there has been an increase of global investment in agri-food technology. The main objective of this paper is to carry out a survey on research and recent trends in agriculture using big data analysis to solve various relevant problems and increase the production. The wide openings of big data in agriculture towards the smart agricultural farming, various techniques and methods for big data analysis, other latest mutual technologies shall encourage more academic research, government bodies and giant agribusiness industries.

Keywords: Big Data, Big Data technologies, Smart Farming, Big data in Agriculture, Recent trends in Agriculture.