Crop loss due to water logging and floods in the agricultural fields is one of biggest challenges faced by the farmers and a cause of concern for the scientists and researchers working for the innovations in agricultural technologies. Crop loss due to water logging take toll of heavy economic loss to the farmers and indirectly affect country's economy by enhancing the fiscal deficit. To counteract this problem, this paper proposes a system wherein the crop loss is reduced by controlling the water level in the field. In this system, capacitive plate based liquid level sensors are used in the sensor network. The main focus of this paper is on the design of a novel sensor network which is capable of sensing 96 sensor values which is obvious in the case of large commercial farms, using few ADC pins of a micro controller. This paper makes use of the proposed sensor network for agricultural application to prevent crop loss due to water logging. © 2006-2015 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN).