How Indian farmers trained world's top 'plant doctor' app

Pankaj MishraTIMESOFINDIA.COM
Jun 30, 2021 | 08:40 IST

Plantix is a crop diagnostics tool that uses reverse image search to diagnose crop diseases and prescribe remedies in seconds, for free

When Simone and Rob Strey walked into a Goa bar sometime in March this year, heads turned. Ravindra, a local farmer in his 30s, couldn’t help but ask the German couple what they were doing in India in the middle of a pandemic.

“We’re working here, we have programmed this application for farmers where they can take pictures of their crop and diagnose any disease within seconds,” Simone recalls telling him.
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