
Agriculture
June 11, 2024
6th Grain
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Updated on January 20, 2025
·Created on September 22, 2016
PlantVillage is an open access library on crop health.
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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