AI tool to diagnose potato diseases in the Netherlands

Published Sep 28, 2021

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The article introduces the PlantVillage Nuru mobile app, which uses AI to identify plant diseases, with a focus on potato crops. This app is designed to assist the over two million potato growers in East Africa who rely on their crop's success. The app's development began as a tool to detect cassava diseases, outperforming human workers, and has now been extended to include potato diseases. The app's functionality involves users pointing their smartphone at the plant, receiving an immediate diagnosis based on thousands of images of healthy and diseased potato leaves that have been used to train the app's neural network.

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It is necessary for potato growers to recognize and combat diseases in their crops at an early stage. The PlantVillage Nuru mobile app uses AI and has been extended to detect plant diseases. More than two million growers in East Africa, who depend on potato cultivation, now only need to point their smartphone at a plant to receive an immediate diagnosis via the PlantVillage Nuru app. The app was initially developed to perform twice as well as the workforce detecting cassava diseases in East Africa and has proven to be of great help to cassava growers, reports www.potatobusiness.com “We've made great strides in disease detection since the Great Potato Famine hit my homeland,” explains David Hughes of the PennState College of Agriculture. “This famine boosted plant disease research. However, the benefits this has brought are not accessible to millions of growers in Africa. AI can be that personal 'labor force' for low-income ...

Source: AGF