Transcript Expert system for ICTA

EXPERT SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURE
&
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
Dr. N. Anandaraja, Ph.D.,
[email protected]
Short supply
of extension
agents
Less number
of female
extension
agents
Lower level of
education of
Bottom level
extension agents
Human Resource
of Extension
More number of
farmer per extension
worker
More area to
be covered by
agents
Poor
ratio of SMS
to agents
Need to Provide instant expert agro advisory services
Future is going to be Virtual Agricultural Practices
Farmers need again farm
specific agro advisory
Extension
worker
Television
The answer of all these questions is:
Friend
Who
will
help
me
EXPERT
in appropriate
SYSTEM
OF
decision making?
News Paper
EXTENSION
Neighbour
Magazine
What is Expert System ?
• An “Expert System” is an intelligent computer
programme that uses knowledge and inference
procedures to solve problems that are difficult
enough to require human expertise for their
solution. (Daniel Hunt, 1986)
Expert Systems Implemented:
1. Cuptex: An Expert System for Cucumber Crop
Production
2. Citex: An Expert System for Orange Production
3. Neper Wheat: An Expert System for Irrigated Wheat
Management
4. Tomatex: An Expert System for Tomatoes
5. Limex: A Multimedia Expert System for Lime Production
6. MANAGE
7. IRRI
8. IASRI-ICAR
Paddy
Sugarcane
Coconut
Expert System for
Banana under Precision system
Ragi
Animal Husbandry
The major activities will include
i. Identifying location specific knowledge needs of the
farming community for content generation and
digitization.
ii. Development of expert system in respective languages
on the crops and animal enterprises
iii. Testing of validity and reliability of the expert systems
at different locations both on men and women farmers
before finalizing on multilingual customized mode.
Methodology
• Contents collected from different sources
• Organized farmers’ workshop / meetings /
brainstorming FOR SCOUTING FARMERS’
QURIERS AND FAQs
• Collected contents - Organized - Validated with
help of concerned Scientists
• Images and Video clippings documented in all
critical stages of the crops
Hardware and Software
•VB Professional Edition
•MSQL Server
•Flash
•IF and Then Rules
•Purely Image / Visual Based
Expert System Components
1. Doctor - Artificial Intelligence
2. Decision Support System
3. Static Information