Predicting Groundnut Disease using CNN Models

Abstract

Groundnut is one of the most important and popular oilseed foods in the agricultural field, and its botanical name is Arachis hypogaea L. Approximately, the pod of mature groundnut contains 1–5 seeds with 57% of oil and 25% of protein content. Groundnut cultivation is affected by different kinds of diseases such as fungi, viruses, and bacteria. Hence, these diseases affect the leaf, root, and stem of the groundnut plant and it leads to heavy loss in yield. Moreover, the enlarger number of diseases affects the leaf and root-like Alternaria, Pestalotiopsis, Bud necrosis, tikka, Phyllosticta, Rust, Pepper spot, Choanephora, early and late leaf spot. To overcome these issues, we introduce an efficient method of convolutional neural network (CNN) because it automatically detects the important features without any human supervision. The proposed methodology can deeply detect plant disease by using a deep learning process. Ultimately, the groundnut disease classification with its overall performance of the proposed methodology provides 96% accuracy.