Publication: Farmer centered large scale e-surveillance and control of crop pests in Kenya
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2017
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With advancement of mobile technology and the property of mobile phones of being
ubiquitous and pervasive, innovative applications in agriculture that are context specific
and individualized to farmers’ needs can now be developed. This is because mobile phone
based agricultural innovations are readily leveraged to provide farmers with information
ranging from farm preparation and pre-harvest to post harvest and farm produce
marketing. In this regard, this paper proposes a farmer centric pest e-surveillance solution
framework, a digital platform that uses mobile devices, image processing and
crowdsourcing to assist smallholder farmers in low income countries to effectively
identify and control crop pest invasion, and to connect them with local agro-vet stores and
extension service providers for assistance. This way, we can assist small holder farmers in
rural Africa to learn about crop pests, to detect and respond to pest invasion, and to
control the effects of such pest invasion by providing timely, accurate, relevant and
readily consumable information in the local languages of the farmers. This also makes it
easy to perform large-scale pest surveillance in the rural farming community
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Pest, e-surveillance, fall armywarm, e-agriculture.