Dar es Salaam. A locally developed mobile application, kilimoAI, is assisting smallholder farmers in Tanzania by enabling early detection of crop pests and diseases.This tool addresses a longstanding ...

Photographic examples of a plant disease dataset. (a) Balck rot; (b) Northern leaf blight; (c) Isariopsis leaf spot; (d) Brown spot. Researchers have made significant progress in the field of ...

This breakthrough could significantly boost crop yields and help achieve food security goals. Crop diseases not only reduce yields but also degrade soil health and disrupt ecosystems. Accurate, early ...

By training statistical and machine-learning models to predict expert visual scores, the study demonstrates that phenomics can match or outperform ...

A new study shows that machine-learning models can accurately predict daily crop transpiration using direct plant ...

CAN a robot first designed for banana farms help address the challenges of coffee production? That was the question explored when the Department of Science and Technology–Advanced Science and ...

A new Israeli study suggests that machine-learning models may soon give growers a far more precise way to predict how much water their crops use each day, while also laying the groundwork for earlier ...