Published 2019-04-06
Abstract
The vast economic potentiality of the crop can be adequately established by the fact that about 20-30 million people consume cotton in India on a regular basis besides those in other countries of the world which may include over 2 billion consumers. Its cultivation is highly labour intensive and offers employment to about 2.0 million families engaged in cultivation, trading and commerce in cotton throughout India. During cultivation cotton is very much affected by disease and also procedure great loss for the farmers. It occurs in a very virulent form and if not controlled, causes widespread damage and even total destruction of the entire cotton plantations without any early indications of the diseases. The aim of this paper is to study and identify various diseases in the cotton plants and also procedure for to identify diseases early infected stage using digital image processing and pattern recognition techniques.