A Deep Learning Based Approach for Sugarcane Disease Detection

The world's largest producers of sugarcane, which is used to make both sugar and bioethanol, are Brazil and India. The crop is primarily grown in tropical and subtropical regions. These nations produce 40% of the world's bioethanol and 80% of its sugar. Sugarcane is susceptible to a wide range of diseases, including bacterial blight, mosaic, red rot, rust, and yellow, due to a multitude of environmental factors. An accurate and dependable automated disease detection system is needed for sugarcane disease diagnosis. In this work, we created the convolution neural network model EfficientNetB0 utilizing data augmentation, evaluated its effectiveness in identifying diseases affecting sugarcane plants using leaf pictures, and compared its performance. The precision, recall, and F1 score values of the EfficientNetB0 model are 0.9812, 0.9821, and 0.9816. This model is a helpful tool that growers may use to prevent sugarcane infections from interfering with the harvesting process, as it has an accuracy rate of 98.12%.