Plantix.

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Agriculture is a vast term and has many aspects. India depends approximately 90% on agriculture. Agriculture provides livelihood and a better life to farmers, but due to crop failure and damage to crops many farmers suicides. Have you ever thought about the main reason behind these suicides? Crop failure is the main reason for these problems. Farmers who are unable to predict the crop failure or pest attack suffer from a great loss. To overcome these kinds of problems and to reduce the difficulties faced by the farmer during agriculture practice an extraordinary software is developed named PLANTIX.

About and Info:

PLANTIX is a mobile app that can be used by farmers in their smartphones. It is a crop advisory application. This app was developed by PEAT, a Berlin-based AI startup. Crop damage, crop failure, pest attack can be diagnosed and predicted by this application, and preventive measures and proper treatment can be taken after using this app.

  • Developer(s):- PEAT
  • Launched year:- 2015
  • Operating system:- Android
  • Type*:-* Crop advisory app

Features:

It can predict crop failure, pest damage, nutrient deficiency symptoms, and provide treatment to the crops. It can be used by farmers, extension workers, small gardeners. An online community is there where users can find scientists, professional farmers, agriculturists and can take guidance from them and protect their crops and improve their cultural and management practice.

Working process:

An image can be uploaded in the app by farmers and gardeners, this image is identified by the app and provides information about the pest or the disease which is damaging the crop. Proper treatment and preventive measures popped up on the screen. This app can also identify Plants and their species after clicking a photo from it. Pathogens can be filtered by plant species, bacteria, virus, fungus. Quick recognition feature helps in quickly identifying plant species and the disease which is more prone to, pests, nutrient deficiency. The database which is growing rapidly helps users provide more knowledge about the different types of diseases and their prevention.

Benefits:

  • Plantix is easy to use by farmers.
  • It can recognize diseases by identifying pictures.
  • It supports and provides information in more than 16 languages throughout the countries.
  • It provides measures to prevent crop failure and damage.

Price:

It is free of cost and easily available in play stores.

Some other important points

  • Plantix was listed as one of the 6 ‘ Change The World’ companies by the fortune magazine in September 2017.
  • According to developers as more people use the app it becomes more accurate as the algorithm obtains more information.
  • The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that between 20 and 40 percent of global crop yields are reduced each year because of plant diseases and pests.
  • The Plantix app can help minimize these effects as users continue to use and share their experiences.