Role of Machine Learning Approach for Detection and Classification of Diseases in Cotton Plant

Abstract

Qualitative and quantitative agricultural production leads to economic benefits which can be achieved by periodic monitoring of crop, detection and prevention of crop diseases and insects. Quality of crop production is reduced by pest infection and crop diseases. Existing measures involves manual detection of cotton diseases by farmers and experts which requires  regular monitoring and detection manifest at middle to later stage of infection which causes many disadvantages such as becoming  too late for diseases to be cured.  Lack of early detection of diseases causes the diseases to be spread in nearby crops in the field and also spraying of pesticides is done on entire field for minimizing the infection of disease. The main goal of proposed research topic is to find the solution to the agriculture problem which involves detecting disease in cotton plant at early stage and classify the disease based on symptoms. Early detection of disease at an early stage prevent it from spreading to another area and preventive measures can be taken by farmers by spraying pesticides to control its growth which helps to increase the cotton yield production. Automatic identification of the different diseases affecting cotton crop will give many benefits to the farmers so that time, money will be saved and also gives healthy life to the crop. The contribution of this paper is to present the machine learning approach used for cotton crop disease diagnosis and classification.