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Agricultural products are vital to the survival of man and in its larger scale of production could contribute to the economy of a nation. Farmers who are at the fore front of Agriculture are faced with several challenges. This paper identifies some of the challenges and in particular focuses on leaf diseases that affect crops. A disease if not well addressed could destroy crops and hence a loss in investment. Using contemporary technology that is affordable and portable, such as mobile devices, this paper develops a framework through which intervention by an expert system on crop diseases could be implemented.
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Nggada, S.H., Muyingi, H.NN., Dheedan, A., Gorejena, M. (2014). Farmer Assisted Mobile Framework for Improving Agricultural Products. In: Elmoataz, A., Lezoray, O., Nouboud, F., Mammass, D. (eds) Image and Signal Processing. ICISP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8509. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07998-1_74
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