Computer Vision Application in Agriculture for Pest Control

Abstract: According to one of the survey report,70% of India's population depends on the agricultural sector. A wide variety of diseases and various types of pests affect crop production, resulting in loss of quality and quantity of the yield. In current scenario farmers are opting for the option of pesticides to get rid of the pest, but the pesticides are ruining the soil quality level and effecting our environment. For this problem faced by many farmers across states the key solution is to detect the pests as early as possible and cut down the use of pesticides over vast areas and concentrate on particular areas where pest is been detected and destroy them as early as possible. Hence this paper gives a solution of such problem that is "Computer vision application in agriculture for pest control".

Keywords: pest detection, image procession, agriculture, pesticides.