Resolving Crop Pests and Diseases With AI
Context
In Africa, crop pests and disease have been hampering agriculture productivity for decades. Africa farmers lose an estimated 49% of expected total crop yield per annum—the highest in the world – according to the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International.
Solution
Agrix Tech helps detects plant diseases and offers both chemical and physical treatment as well as prevention measures. After scanning a photograph, the app provides image, text and voice recognition technology in customized African local languages to provide treatment recommendations
Impact
Farmers in Senegal, Benin, Morocco and Cameroon today no longer need to try a cocktail of many pesticides that end up being expensive and harmful to humans and crops. Can detect diseases in detect multiple diseases in maize, rice, bell pepper, onions, tomato, Irish potato, pepper, mango, lemon, watermelon, cucumber, cabbage, groundnut, citrus, date palm, amongst others