Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (IGKV) is the only University serving in the tribal and Naxal affected state, Chhattisgarh since 20th January 1987. The university has three mandates namely, teaching, research and extension. Under extension of services to farmers, the Crop Doctor Android mobile app had been envisaged to provide wider reach and easy accessibility of crop information and service among farmers. It disseminates information related to disease, insect, nutrient deficiency of crops to the farmers. • Farmers can query the information with imagse from various nutrient deficiency, diseases, insects affected for obtaining the solution as required • It allows farmers to lodge grievances, monitor status and get the response
A key feature of the mobile apps is picture-based identification of insects, diseases and nutrient de-ficiency / Excess symptom. Farmers can upload a photo of their infected crop and the app will pro-vide diagnosis. Farmers can also listen, as it reads the text. Currently, the database has over 1000 photographs, covering 25 crops in Chhattisgarh, and has prescriptions for over 100 crop diseases, insect and nutrient excess / deficiency symptoms. Every time a farmer uploads a photograph for di-agnosis, it will be time marked and geo-referenced. The Mobile App has more than 1,20,000 downloads so far.
The Development of this system for all crops is very important to provide farm specific advisory services in time and self-diagnosis of farm problems