AgriCare: An Android Application for Detection of Paddy Diseases

Agriculture is a significant part of India’s economy being one of the main sources of living. Paddy plant is one of the most important food crops of India covering about one-fourth of the total cropped area. Although having the potential in the market, India’s lower paddy crop productivity/hector and higher cost of production is a major concern for farmers. The low yield can be addressed by designing a system that helps farmers identify and predict diseases in the paddy crops. There are so many types of paddy diseases. It is very difficult to manually identify appropriate properties for distinguishing different types of crop diseases. So an android app will help farmers to identify and detect a paddy plant disease using images of the disease-infected paddy crop based on machine learning image processing techniques.