Machine Learning as a Strategic Tool for Helping Cocoa Farmers in Cote D'Ivoire.

ABSTRACT: Machine learning can be used for social good. The employment of artificial intelligence in smart agriculture has many benefits for the environment: it helps small farmers (at a local scale) and policymakers and cooperatives (at regional scale) to take valid and coordinated countermeasures to combat climate change. This article discusses how artificial intelligence in agriculture can help to reduce costs, especially in developing countries such as Côte d'Ivoire, employing only low-cost or open-source tools, from hardware to software and open data. We developed machine learning models for two tasks: the first is improving agricultural farming cultivation, and the second is water management. For the first task, we used deep neural networks (YOLOv5m) to detect healthy plants and pods of cocoa

SUBMITTER: Ferraris S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10490821 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature