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PlantVillage is public good unit with over 7 million people around the world who have visited the website, making us the largest source of free, open access science-based advice on crop health in the world.

We want to help you, and the global community of people growing food (over 500 million people) to access knowledge on crops, crop diseases and agronomy practices. We invested over $500,000 in making PlantVillage and we need to continue to add new knowledge and provide phones for African farmers to use with NURU (an AI extension system) as well as improving NURU.

We would really appreciate if you can help us raise funds by donating to Penn State University’s PlantVillage fund. Also, if you have an Android phone to donate please email dhughes@psu.edu and we will re-package for farmers in Africa.

Thank you for supporting us by using and sharing our site as well as for your contribution. There is no fixed amount for the donation, anything you can give would be great!

David Hughes, PlantVillage co-founder

Please Help

  • Our goal is to help smallholder farmers grow more food.

  • There are 550 million farms in the world and 83% are small, less than 2 hectares, family farms with little or no access to knowledge on increasing productivity

  • We empower farmers to increase yield by leveraging Artificial Intelligence to provide off line expert level knowledge and extension advice in their fields

Democratized advanced technology for smallholder agriculture

PlantVillage wants to increase smallholder farmer productivity by reducing the friction to adopt and use advanced technology from AI to drones to satellite mapping of fields.

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