An app that answers farmers’ queries on pests and diseases

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Info Technological innovation (IIIT-Hyderabad) have made an app — Crop Darpan — which permits farmers to get an prompt prescription for the pests and diseases that their crops are beset with.

All that the farmers require to do is down load the app from Google’s Play Shop and remedy a couple queries. Just one query will lead to another until eventually it narrows down to the challenge for which a prescription will be offered in no time.

Presently offered in English and Telugu, the app offers methods for all the diseases and difficulties that the cotton crop faces.

“In a 7 days, we are heading to open up a window for paddy farmers. The app can change an extension officer. A farmer with a smart cellular phone can down load the app and remedy the queries that it poses,” Krishna Reddy, an IIIT-H college and Chief Investigator for the Indo-Japanese project that seeks to offer basic methods for farmers, advised BusinessLine.

 

How it was built

Krishna Reddy stated the staff introduced in facts science things these types of as generalisation-specialistation, principle hierarchy, conclusion trees, rule-primarily based units and facts mining to establish the crop prognosis device.

The architecture permits the researchers to incorporate other languages and crops at a later on stage.

“The concerns deal with a range of concerns associated to pests, bacterial and fungal diseases and concerns associated to dietary deficiencies,” he stated.

Krishna Reddy, one of the earliest researchers in e-agriculture in the state, stated that the app can act as an agriculture professional and assist the farmers in evaluating the challenge and suggesting a prescription.

Reddy experienced before made website-primarily based agricultural extension services referred to as e-sagu.

Srinivas Annapalli, Aravinda Gadamsetty, Revanth Parvathaneni and Saideep Chennupati are some of the other members of the staff led by Reddy.