Ensemble Learning Framework for Mango Plant Disease Detection and Classification

Abstract

Agriculture sector play a vital role in economy of India where the crop of mangoes is also considered as major fruit crop as it contributes significantly to the country's agricultural economy. Mango cultivation provides livelihood to millions of farmers across the country. One of the main barriers to increased food production is the diseases of the plants. Mango trees are prone to a variety of diseases and addressing them effectively can be quite challenging. This paper presents an ensemble-based classification of mango tree leaf diseases. Ensemble based classification makes use of multiple classifiers in order to make an efficient decision about the crop disease. In this paper, homogeneous VGG-19 CNN architecture is employed in bagging manner which proves the validity of the system by providing the accuracy of 95%, precision of 97%, recall of 97% and F-score of 97%.This system will be useful for Ministry of agricultural and farmer welfare for taking preventive measures to make Mango trees disease free.