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PlantVillage Nuru (Kenya)

📍 Kenia · 2018 · PlantVillage (Penn State University)

Scale

local

subnational

national

systemic

Description

Mobile AI app (computer vision / deep learning) that diagnoses crop diseases and pests from photos of leaves, offline, on low-cost phones. In Kenya it is deployed with small-scale farmers and extension agents to diagnose cassava diseases (CMD, CBSD) and maize diseases, with advice in Swahili and English. Nuru means light in Swahili.

Linked evidence

▦Accuracy of a Smartphone-Based Object Detection Model, PlantVillage Nuru, in Identifying the Foliar Symptoms of the Viral Diseases of Cassava - CMD and CBSDFrontiers in Plant Science · 2020Evidence