Updated on January 20, 2025

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Created on September 22, 2016

PlantVillage

Open-source

PlantVillage is an open access library on crop health.

Developed By
  1. David Hughes
Tested By
  • Pennsylvania State University
Content Partners
Unknown

Product Description

PlantVillage is a user moderated Q&A forum dedicated to the goal of helping people grow their own food. It is an open resource that helps farmers solve plant-related questions.

PlantVillage will offer the Nuru app, a digital assistant to help farmers diagnose crop disease in the field, without an internet connection. Work in progress includes drones, mobile spectrophotometry and testing use of satellites for smallholder farmers.

Target SDGs

SDG 2: Zero Hunger

SDG 1: No Poverty

Target Users (Target Impact Group)

Household

Distributors / Implementing Organizations

PlantVillage is a non-profit project and a collaboration between Penn State University and EPFL.

Regions

Sub-Saharan Africa

Countries

India, United States

Manufacturing/Building Method

N/A

Intellectural Property Type

Open-source

User Provision Model

Users can access PlantVillage directly through their website. It is free to sign-up and become a member.

Nuru app can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Distributions to Date Status

PlantVillage has seen over 3 million unique users since launch in 2013.Interview with representative

Design Specifications

PlantVillage offers agricultural advice through multiple platforms on their website. Users can upload questions and pictures directly to the forum section of their website, where other users can then respond. Additionally, PlantVillage offers a plant database of nearly 200 plants with information on physical characteristics, maintenance needed, and harvesting tips. Lastly, users can create plant journals which help them track progress over the plant's life, as well as allowing them to identify when certain problems arose.

Technical Support

Support is provided directly by community members on the site.

Replacement Components

N/A

Lifecycle

N/A

Manufacturer Specified Performance Parameters

N/A

Vetted Performance Status

Unknown

Safety

N/A

Complementary Technical Systems

N/A

Academic Research and References

Hughes, D. and Marcel S., 2015, An Open Access Repository of Images on Plant Health to Enable the Development of Mobile Disease Diagnostics. arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08060.

Hlaing, C. S. and Zaw, S.M.M., 2017, Plant Diseases Recognition for Smart Farming Using Model-Based Statistical Features, IEEE 6th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE), pp. 1-4.

Islam, M., Dinh, A., Wahid, K. and Bhowmik, P., 2017, Detection of Potato Diseases Using Image Segmentation and Multiclass Support Vector Machine, IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), pp. 1-4.

“PlantVillage.” n.d. Psu.Edu. Accessed June 11, 2024. https://plantvillage.psu.edu/

“Goal 2.” n.d. Sdgs.Un.Org. Accessed June 11, 2024. https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal2

“anyone involved with growing plants”. n.d. http://agsci.psu.edu/magazine/articles/2015/spring-summer/plant-village

“PlantVillage.” n.d. Psu.Edu. Accessed June 11, 2024. https://plantvillage.psu.edu/posts

“PlantVillage.” n.d. Google.Com. Accessed June 11, 2024. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=plantvillage.nuru

“?PlantVillage Nuru.” n.d. App Store. Accessed June 11, 2024. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plantvillage-nuru/id1441395371

Compliance with regulations

Unknown

Evaluation methods

User admissions and response rates

Ratings in the app store

Academic publications

Other Information

None

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