Disease Detection in Tomato Plants Using Deep Learning
Agriculture is the backbone of the economy of any country. Productivity of the crops depends on soil quality, proper irrigation and fertilizer, appropriate pesticide. Mostly pesticides were applied without having knowledge about the type of diseases or pests. Type and the quantity of pesticide for any depends on the disease category. If we could identify the appropriate disease, then applying appropriate pesticide will increase the yield of the crop. To address this issue, we propose a method to detect the diseases in tomato plants. We have designed a Convolutional Neural Network architecture that efficiently detects the disease of tomato plant. The system is evaluated with Plant Village benchmark dataset. Results show that our network is detecting the diseases with 90.86% accuracy. We have identified a suitable variant of Convolutional Neural Network that efficiently detects the disease of tomato plant.