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Neurafarm: Putting an AI plant doctor in farmers' hands

  • Indonesia
  • 4 min read
  • Sep 15, 2020
  • By Putu Agung Wija Putera

Promotional video showing how an urban gardener uses Dokter Tania. © Neurafarm

This startup is riding on Indonesia’s urban farming trend with its planting kit and an AI-powered app that identifies plant diseases from photos of unhealthy leaves

From the smallest garden to the widest fields, plant diseases are a big threat to agriculture. Hobbyist gardeners and lifelong farmers alike have to quickly recognize if their plants are infected and correctly identify diseases in the field, but that requires expertise and many years’ experience. 
To help farmers and gardeners of all skill levels nip plant diseases in the bud, Bandung-based startup Neurafarm has developed Dokter Tania, an AI-powered, image recognition app that can detect plant diseases almost instantly. Users take a photograph of unhealthy leaves in a plant and send it...

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