Chandigarh University develops new mobile application to detect crop disease

The mobile application aims to help farmers to make arrangements before the spread of disease in healthy crops. 

A department of research and development of Chandigarh University has come up with an Artificial Intelligence-based Mobile Application that will help in detecting crop diseases at an early stage of the farming cycle. The app aims to help farmers to make arrangements before the spread of disease in healthy crops. 

Talking about the mobile application, the inventor and project scientist of Chandigarh University, Amit Verma said, “The diseases like cutworms, potato tuber moth are common in potatoes. Early and Late Blight in Tomatoes severely damages the crop. To overcome these and many other diseases, this detecting application can be used to identify and detect the illness in these crops in order to increase agricultural production.”

Amit Verma explained that the mobile application works on three-step disease detection which is based on Image Processing that matches the current picture of the crop with that of disease-infected crop. Using the pattern matching technique the app prompts any significant change in the leaves, stems or branches. In addition, the mobile app offers suggestions to further treat the disease based upon the stage of the crop damaged by the pests and insects. The App will be able to detect 39 diseases in two crops while the study to extend the detection for 19 more crops is currently under process.

Chandigarh University’s Dean Research, Prof. Sanjeet Singh said, “The app took six months to be completely designed and tested and the research has been funded by the Department of Research of the University.” Chandigarh University has formed a special research group to carry advanced projects in the field of Agriculture and in last three years, the research group has filed 31 patents in the field of Farming and Agriculture, which will be launched soon in the market that will help Indian farmers to overcome their numerous problems, added Prof Sanjeet.

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