Vidur

Vidur- A Case Based Reasoning (CBR) based Advisory System for Farmers

CBR relies on solving problems based on past solutions, just as humans use experience to solve problems. Experiences are stored as cases in a case base. Each case has a problem description part and a solution part. The problem to be solved is a case, without a solution. Solving a problem reduces to searching similar cases from the case base and uses the solution of the similar retrieved case(s). The simplicity in storing experiences allows anyone associated with the domain share their experiences. The solution strategy being general and has been applied successfully in many domains ranging from medical to agriculture.

Vidur is an Advisory System for farmers developed using CBR. Vidur is developed to be used by farmers in Manipur state in some aspects of a farming process. At present, the system can be used for Paddy Variety Selection and Weed Control. The system was developed with the knowledge fed by agricultural experts from CAU, Imphal. With this advisory system, farmers now have a virtual expert available as and when needed.

Following are the some features of Vidur:

• Facilitates sharing of knowledge between agricultural experts and farmers seamlessly
• Easy to use and intuitive UI to register problems and find solutions.
• Easy to use and intuitive UI to update the knowledge base.
• Online user manual
• Web based

Future Works:

• Extending for other main crops like pea, mustard, potato, wheat, etc
• Covering various region in India
• Handling other aspects in a farming process like crop rotation, pest control, etc