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| Knowledge Based System for Diagnosis and Management of Okra Diseases |
Husnain Saleem, Abdur Rashid Khan, Tehseen Ali Jilani, Muhammad Saleem Jilani
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Abstract:
This work is related with the introduction of KBSDMOD (Knowledge Based System for Diagnosis and Management of Okra Diseases). Okra / Lady Finger (Abelmoschus esculentus L.) is a very valuable and much likely vegetable for most the people in the World that is found all over the world. The Top five producing countries of Okra include; India 61.9%, Nigeria 22.2%, Sudan 3.2%, Mali 2.7% and Pakistan 1.3% and or exporting to countries like; Afghanistan, UAE, Iran and Malaysia. The World production of Okra is 8900434 tons and area under cultivation is 2157961 hectares. World rankin of Pakistan is 5th number and its share is 1.3 % in the World. The area under cultivation is 15529 hectare and production of okra is 118986 tonnes in Pakistan. Unfortunately, diseases are the main concern of Okra, resulting to low yield in Pakistan as compared to other Okra producing countries. The main objective of this research study is to diagnose diseases of Okra in a timely manner and give accurate management practices to reduce losses and boost productivity in Pakistan. In this research study, we proposed an Expert System named as KBSDMOD that will give consultation to users at no cost and to replace to much extent the rare human experts of the problem domain. This work was completed in various stages, like; the required knowledge of the problem domain being acquired from agriculture experts and existing literature, was extracted and modeled using Decision Tree, a knowledge-based system using ESTA (Expert System for Text Animation) was developed for consultation. Agricultural experts, different students and group of farmers took interest in testing and evaluating the proposed Expert System which was found interesting and useful for them as a result. The proposed Expert System is not only limited to Pakistan and Okra vegetable but can easily be extended to other countries as well as other fruits and vegetables with minor changes.
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