Icon Based Information Retrieval and Disease Identification in   Agriculture
  Recent developments in the ICT industry in past few decades has enabled the quick and easy access to the information available on the internet. But, digital literacy is the pre-requisite for its use. The main purpose of this paper is to provide an interface for digitally illiterate users, especially farmers to efficiently and effectively retrieve information through Internet. In addition, to enable the farmers to identify the disease in their crop, its cause and symptoms using digital image processing and pattern recognition instantly without waiting for an expert to visit the farms and identify the disease. 
Namita Mittal, Basant Agarwal, Ajay Gupta, Hemant Madhur
cs.HC cs.CV cs.CY cs.IR