ABSTRACT This paper intends to introduce a novel sugarcane plant disease prediction. There are three stages to the projected method, namely: (i) Preprocessing, (ii) Feature extraction, and (iii) Disease detection phase. Initially, the input image is given to the pre-processing stage in which the grey transformation and bilinear interpolation are carried out. The grey transformation is undergone to improve the clarity of the picture and the bilinear interpolation is used as a re-sampling technique. The feature extraction step follows the pre-processed picture, where both texture and colour features are retrieved. More specifically, the texture features like GLCM and suggested Distance-based LBP (D-LBP) features will be extracted. Subsequently, the extracted features are subjected to the disease detection phase process, where a hybrid classifier is introduced. This hybrid classifier blends the concepts of ‘Neural Network (NN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM)’ for better prediction results. In order to verify the effectiveness of the work that is suggested, a comparison analysis is conducted comparing the suggested and current approaches. The proposed method achieves highest accuracy in 80% of learning which is 13.97%, 16.12%, 11.82%, and 12.9% better than the other methods such as SVM, DT, RF, and NN, respectively.