Potato Disease Recognition Dataset

1. Potatoes provide nutrition, along with rice and wheat. Additionally, potatoes are easily
digestible as a food. Potatoes contain a good amount of dietary energy. Moreover, they also
contain vitamins and mineral salts. Potatoes can be used to prepare various delicious dishes,
including sweets, semai, and various types of bhartas. In addition to eating curry,
housewives and girls can benefit financially by processing and selling chips.
2. Potato is the most popular vegetable among Indians. Its role in food and nutrition is
unparalleled. Due to the widespread cultivation and use of potatoes in the past year, there
has been an increase in potato production. Potatoes are susceptible to various diseases at
different times. Among them, some notable diseases have been discussed in this potato
dataset.
3. Diseases in crops pose a significant challenge to agricultural production, impacting the
quality and productivity of the crops. Due to environmental factors, diseases in crops can
have adverse effects on both yield and quality. For instance, potato diseases can negatively
impact the yield and quality of potatoes, leading to significant economic losses for farmers.
Traditional methods of identifying and managing crop diseases are often time-consuming,
labor-intensive, inefficient, and subjective.
4. Such classification and identification tasks have been a promising area for computer vision
in recent years.
5. A large dataset of five different potato classes—Healthy Potato, Blackspot Bruising
Disease, Soft Rot Disease, Brown Rot Disease, and Dry Rot Disease—is shown in order to
create machine vision-based algorithms.
6. In this dataset, there are 495 original images of potatoes. Then, in order to increase the
number of data points, shifting, flipping, zooming, shearing, brightness enhancement, and
rotation techniques are used to create a total of 3465 augmented images from these original
images.