Study on the Prognostication of Crop Diseases using Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

It is universally accepted fact that crop diseases are one of the major threats in agriculture that ultimately result in drastic reduction of food supply. The present project study aims to use artificial intelligence in building a model which is integrated with a user-friendly web application. The web application is created using the Python-based Django framework. This user interface allows the user to choose a crop name and upload an image of a leaf wherein the trained model then begins the process of feature extraction on the image and tries to make an accurate prediction. The final result is displayed to the user confirming whether the crop may be “healthy” or the “diseased “and even the name of the disease that infects the plant will be displayed. The application also suggests a suitable treatment to combat the disease. Thus, the scope of this project study is very scalable as it can be easily be used by amateur gardeners as well as by farmers. The model itself can also be extended to include more plant types along with any new diseases which may arise due to factors like climate change, pest - resistance etc.