Icon Based Information Retrieval and Disease Identification in Agriculture

TL;DR

This paper presents an icon-based interface enabling farmers with low digital literacy to efficiently retrieve agricultural information and identify crop diseases instantly using digital image processing and pattern recognition.

Contribution

It introduces a novel icon-based system for accessible information retrieval and disease diagnosis tailored for digitally illiterate farmers.

Findings

Effective interface for non-digital users

Accurate crop disease identification using image processing

Improved access to agricultural information

Abstract

Recent developments in the ICT industry in past few decades has enabled the quick and easy access to the information available on the internet. But, digital literacy is the pre-requisite for its use. The main purpose of this paper is to provide an interface for digitally illiterate users, especially farmers to efficiently and effectively retrieve information through Internet. In addition, to enable the farmers to identify the disease in their crop, its cause and symptoms using digital image processing and pattern recognition instantly without waiting for an expert to visit the farms and identify the disease.