176 Submission
176 Submission
Abstract—The ever-present need for super-efficient and pose severe threats to taro cultivation, causing substantial
nutrition-packed food has always challenged the agricultural yield losses and financial burdens on farmers. Leaf blight,
industry. Diseases and pests lead the charge towards making this caused by Phytophthora colocasiae, is a highly destructive
issue worse with their ever-growing impact. Crop quality and disease that can reduce taro yield by 25-50%, making
yield both suffer immensely. One such crop struggling with this
cultivation unprofitable.
condition is Taro, better known by its scientific name, Colocasia
esculenta. It is a tropical vegetable grown in several countries in
Asia and Africa. Like many others, Taro suffers from pestilence It infects at a fast rate in hot and moist conditions, forming
and diseases, and the damage can be severe due to its versatility lesions, wilting, and early defoliation. The mosaic virus, on
and ingredients as well as its nutritional profile, which consists the other hand, is mostly spread by aphids and causes mottled,
of a ton of carbohydrates and fibre while having very low deformed, or curled leaves, reducing plant strength and
calories. Cultivating taro is not economically viable for most due eventually productivity [14]. Left uncontrolled, such diseases
to Phytophthora colocasiae, which brings forth “leaf blight.” can damage entire fields, impacting small-scale farmers as
This condition reduces the yield by approximately 25%-50%. well as huge-scale agricultural businesses. Conventional
The plant is also affected by a mosaic virus, which is transmitted
mainly by aphids. This virus weakens the plant and also destroys
disease detection techniques are based totally on manual
leaves. To ensure the impacts are not overly excessive, prompt exams, which are time-consuming, hard work in-depth, and
action towards disease control is imperative. AI solutions such prone to human blunders. These conventional techniques tend
as the AI MobileNetV2, EfficientNet, and ConvNeXt, which to bring about late diagnoses, giving sicknesses adequate time
assist in recognizing blight leaf and marking infection of taro to spread before corrective action can be taken. To conquer
leaves, will be implemented in this study. Alongside image those obstacles, the incorporation of artificial intelligence
classification, actionable suggestion systems built using the (AI) and machine learning to know (ML) [20] technologies
Hugging Face library's Transformer-based models will provide into plant ailment detection systems offers a
immediate and useful suggestions, helping taro leaf disease possible solution. In plant health analysis, disease symptom
management be effortless and efficient.
identification, and early alert provision to farmers, deep
Keywords—Agriculture, grid system, AI models, efficiency, learning image classification models have shown remarkable
resistance. success.
The system not only upgrades early disease detection but also VI. PROPOSED SOLUTION
provides farmers with the idea they need to implement eco- 1. MobileNetV2
friendly farming techniques by merging AI-enabled
suggestions with deep learning-based disease detection. By It is one of the main deep learning models in this project for
applying cutting-edge farming strategies in real-world disease diagnosing in Colocasia (taro) leaves. The ultimate
scenarios for those who need it most, this integrated method goal of MobileNetV2 [15] is to detect whether the input
enhances efficiency, lowers harvest losses, and ensures global images are healthy or diseased by extracting the beneficial
food security [1]. features from them. MobileNetv2 [15] is especially well-
fitted for this use since it is productive and lightweight in
design, making it unique for deployment in modern
agricultural applications like mobile apps and edge devices.
V. MOTIVATION
EfficientNet is used as a feature extractor for Colocasia (taro) ConvNeXt is a key element of the system, which is a feature
leaf disease detection [18] in the system proposed. It is extractor for the disease classification of Colocasia (taro)
scalable and optimized in nature and thus can maintain high leaves from diseases like Leaf Blight and Mosaic Virus. The
accuracy [4] with efficient computations. EfficientNet is other deep learning creations, like enhanced activation
different from the traditional convolutional neural network functions, depth-wise convolutions, and Layer Norm,
[8] because it utilizes compound scaling to change depth, ConvNeXt improves the traditional Convolutional Neural
width, and resolution equally for better model performance Network (CNN) [8] architecture, gaining inspiration from the
with minimal growth in computational requirements. recent advancement in transformer-based [6] models.
Appreciation of these innovations can efficiently process
In this framework, EfficientNet takes resized input images of
images and extract detailed data.
224 × 224 × 3 pixels and derives significant disease-related
features, including lesions, coloration changes, and texture ConvNeXt uses this architecture to retrieve essential disease-
changes. The sophisticated convolutional layers of the model related details from input images with pixel sizes of 224 ×
detect subtle patterns that distinguish healthy leaves from 224 × 3, including texture anomalies, color aberrations, and
infected ones. Following that, these extracted features are sore morphologies. Its hierarchical structure, which
passed through fully connected layers and a SoftMax demonstrates dimensional pattern recognition, makes it
classifier to categorize the leaf as leaf Blight, Mosaic Virus effective at drawing precise distinctions between healthy and
or healthy. For the proficiency between efficiency and diseased leaves. To classify the leaf into appropriate classes,
accuracy [4], EfficientNet is the perfect option for real-time the learned details or features are then fed into a fully
disease detection. connected layer and a SoftMax classifier. Due to its powerful
function extraction [13] capability, the ConvNeXt verifies
precise disease detection with ideal performance adapted for
real-time use in agriculture.
4. BART (facebook/bart-large-cnn)
5. FLAN-T5