FarmCare: Location-based Profitable Crop Recommendation System with Disease Identification

Abstract

Sri Lanka is an agricultural country since ancient times. Today’s agriculture field is in a dangerous situation because farmers are losing their yield. There are many factors to consider when planting crops like rainfall, temperature, soil conditions, future prices, diseases, etc. We decided to help them through the android application we are making. Here we identified four main problems. First, it was wrong crop cultivation. This is the main reason crops and cultivation are destroyed. To give a solution to that problem, we suggest the five most suitable crops to cultivate according to their location. The second problem is a lack of knowledge about future market prices. As a solution to that problem, we predict prices for each cop for the next 12 months. Another problem is an inability to sell their product at a reasonable price. Here, we directly connect buyers and sellers by removing intermediaries. The last problem is the difficulty to identify diseases affected by crops. Using our mobile app farmers can identify which disease affected their crops by uploading an image to the app. To give solutions to the above-mentioned problems Machine Learning algorithms are used like Random Forest, k-means clustering, and Convolution Neural Network algorithms.