
PlantVillage Malawi Developing AI Model to Combat Banana Bunchy Top Disease (BBTD)
Written by Emmy Neema
A team of PlantVillage research extension officers in Malawi is developing an AI model that’ll be helpful in combating Banana Bunchy Top Disease (BBTV), which has become a menace to farmers in the country.
The officers, who have been monitoring the disease in Thyolo, Lilongwe, and Dedza, have finished collecting images of infected plants to acquire a baseline to train a new model for the banana AI that will be incorporated in the PlantVillage Nuru app, just like it has already been done for other crops such as coffee, banana, cassava, and maize.