Smart Agriculture

Chapter 13

Machine intelligence techniques for agricultural production

Case study with tomato leaf disease detection

Mihir Narayan Mohanty

ITER, Siksha ‘o’ Anusandhan

13.1 Introduction

Agriculture has been the sole reason for the transformation of nomadic life to the settled life of humans. With passing times, it not only became the source of the main food supply for the ever-growing population but also acted as raw material feeder industry for most of the industries, leading to the overall development of humankind. While the industries grew and accommodated new technologies, the farmer himself had no or limited access to data on climate, water supply, energy availability, demands in the market, movements of the pests like locusts or even bigger ...