Plant Disease Prediction System using Image Processing

Abstract

Agriculture productivity is the major issue which affects the Indian economy. Crop cultivation plays an essential role in the agricultural field. Presently, the loss of food is mainly due to infected crops, which reflexively reduces the production rate. The major cause for decrease in the quality and amount of agricultural productivity is due to the diseases in plants. The occurrence of diseases in plants may result in significant loss in both quality and quantity of agricultural productivity. This can produce the negative impact on the countries whose economies are primarily dependent on the agriculture. Farmers encounter great difficulties in detecting and controlling plant diseases. Hence the detection of plant diseases in the earlier stages is very important to avoid the loss in terms of quality, quantity and finance. This paper mainly focuses on the approach based on image processing techniques that help farmers for detecting the diseases of plants by uploading leaf image to the system.