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| Expert System for Diagnosing Mobile and Immobile Nutrients Deficiency of Plants |
Husnain Saleem, Dr. Abdur Rashid Khan, Dr. Tehseen Ali Jilani
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Abstract:
Plants are important for the world and for all living things. Plants releases oxygen from their leaves and absorb carbon dioxide gas, which humans as well as other animals need to breathe. Unfortunately, productivity and quality of plants are still quite low due to many reasons and plant nutrient deficiency as one of the important reason of low productivity and quality of plants especially in rural areas due to absence of nutritional information and agricultural expert assistance. Nutrients deficiency can have a significant impact on agriculture, resulting in reduced crop/fruit yield or reduced plant quality. The key objective of this research study is to develop and practically implement an Expert system that can help the farming community of rural areas as well as researchers or observers to timely diagnose plant nutrients deficiency. The Expert System for Diagnosing Mobile and Immobile Nutrients Deficiency of Plants (ESDMINDP) developed through using ESTA (Expert System Shell for Text Animation) as a development platform and decision tree used for hierarchical classification. Knowledge about Mobile and Immobile plant nutrients deficiency, its symptoms are extracted from agriculture experts and existing literature, then is converted into a decision tree, and then developed an Expert System for consultation. Farmers, Agricultural experts and Agriculture teachers, evaluated the proposed system and who were happy and satisfied with its performance and ease of use.
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