KhetDrishti

Farmer-support platform for small farmers

Team name: KhetDrishti

Team members

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Debaraj Chetry – Front end and UI/UX design

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Kishore Sharma – Backend and Architecture designer

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Saptak Biswas - Research and data base

KhetDrishti gives small farmers fair price information, timely advice and easy access to government schemes, in their own language and even offline.

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Problem and Target Users

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The specific problem

• Smallholder farmers in Assam often struggle to identify possible causes of crop problems and decide what action to take in right time.
• The problem is not that advice doesn't exist. The problem is that the right advice doesn't reach the farmer in time

Who faces it

• Small farmers of village areas in Assam
• Farmers with limited internet connectivity and low digital literacy.- Farmers who lack easy access to reliable crop-disease guidance and fair market information.

How they cope now, and what is missing

• - Ask neighbours or experienced farmers to identify crop problems.
• - Seek advice from input shops or agricultural extension workers.
• - Reliable support when mobile connectivity is weak.- Clear next steps that explain uncertainty instead of giving a potentially wrong diagnosis.- Easy access to an agriculture expert when a crop problem is unclear or high-risk.

Why it is worth solving

• - Protect farmers' livelihoods: A wrong or delayed decision can waste money, damage crops, and threaten a farming season.
• Make trusted advice accessible: Farmers in rural Assam need understandable guidance in their own language, even with weak internet connectivity

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What We Built

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A mobile-friendly, offline-first crop advisory platform offering local-language guidance, safe next steps, and expert support for small farmers in Assam.

1. Farmer gives

Joins through local cooperative (Kisan card, Aadhaar)�Crop details

Symptoms

Crop image

Field Condition

Simple Guidance Response

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2. System does

KhetDrishti guides

Shows possible causes and safe next steps using expert-reviewed guidance.

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3. Farmer gets

Farmer gets support

Receives clear guidance or is directed to an agriculture expert when the case is unclear.

Already existed vs Built in BUILD

• Existing Solutions:Information is available, but often fragmented, technical, and difficult for small farmers to apply.
• KhetDrishti:Transforms existing agricultural knowledge into accessible, symptom-driven, actionable crop guidance.

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Working Demo and Results

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1. Farmer opens our cooperative site
2. Selects language of site in English ,Assamese or Hindi
3. Adds all necessary data required to login
4. Selects his crop which he is farming and on what typical area of land he is cropping
5. Our ai powered site takes on some qwestion regarding the land and crop and problem if farmeris facing any
6. Adds any problems he is facing and asks for advice
7. Gets advisory and alerts for cropping
8. Sees scheme and insurance info of government if there is any

Demo video link of our working site :

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=https://youtu.be/btp7wn1cnA8

Works now

Paddy-focused web application.

Farmer-friendly user interface.

Guided crop symptom assessment.

Basic disease and pest information.

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Limitations / not connected

Limited crop and disease coverage.

No fully trained AI image diagnosis model.

Recommendations require expert validation.

Limited offline and multilingual support.

No live agricultural expert integration.

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Ingenuity and Technical Decisions

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What is original

• Farmer-centric platform designed specifically for Assam and Northeast India.
• Crop disease identification through symptom-based questions and image uploads.
• Multilingual, offline-first approach for rural farmers.
• Free access to agricultural guidance with future expert and cooperative integration.

How it is different

Existing platforms often provide fragmented agricultural information.

KhetDrishti combines crop diagnosis, preventive measures, and farming guidance in one platform.

Focuses on local crops, especially paddy, and region-specific agricultural problems.Provides personalized recommendations based on farmer inputs rather than generic advice.

Key technical decision

React + Vite: Lightweight, mobile-friendly farmer interface.FastAPI + PostgreSQL: Proposed scalable backend for managing farmer queries and agricultural data.Rule-Based Diagnosis:

Symptom-driven recommendations using structured agricultural knowledge.

Offline-First Architecture: Designed to support farmers with limited internet connectivity.

A challenge and how we solved it

• Challenge: Accurate crop diagnosis is difficult because different diseases can show similar symptoms.
• Solution: Developed a structured question-based workflow to narrow down possible diseases.
• Challenge: Limited availability of reliable, region-specific agricultural information.
• Solution: Organized paddy disease symptoms, causes, and preventive measures into a structured knowledge base.

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Potential and Next Steps

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Who can use it

Small and marginal farmers across Assam and Northeast India.Farmer cooperatives, FPOs, and agricultural extension workers.Agricultural institutions and rural farming communities.

Value for them

Early identification of potential crop diseases and pests.Faster access to localized agricultural guidance.Reduced dependence on unreliable advice and unnecessary treatment expenses.Better-informed decisions to help minimize crop losses.

What we build next

AI-powered crop disease detection through image analysis.Offline functionality with Assamese, Hindi, and voice assistance.Weather-based alerts and personalized crop recommendations.Expert consultation and expansion beyond paddy.

To be usable in real world

Pilot testing with paddy farmers in selected Assam villages.Validate disease recommendations with agricultural experts and KVKs.Improve accuracy using real field data and farmer feedback.Partner with cooperatives for adoption and long-term sustainability.

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