IIIT-H develops App to help farmers in crop disease diagnosis Top Searches: | TNN | Jan 23, 2021, 17:50 IST HYDERABAD: Researchers at IIIT H (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad) have created Crop Darpan, an application, to help farmers with issues related to crop growth, pests, bacterial, fungal diseases, and nutritional deficiencies. The main aim of the app, which was developed under an Indo-Japan Joint Research Laboratory Project, is to mimic the presence of an agriculture expert who is not only well versed with visual symptoms of diseases plaguing crops but can also guide the farmers on appropriate measures to tackle the same. The current prototype has been built for the cotton crop in two languages, namely English and Telugu. “It was however designed in such a way that it is scalable for all crops and can be extended in all Indian languages too. In fact, we have already begun work on seeding the system in Hindi,” said Srinivas Annapalli, who was part of the team that developed this application.