An expert system for the management of pests and diseases in the Jamaican coffee industry
Mansingh, G., Reichgelt, H., Bryson, K.-M.O. CPEST: An expert system for the management of pests and diseases in the Jamaican coffee industry. Expert Systems with Applications Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 184-192
Mansingh, G., Reichgelt, H., Bryson, K.-M.O. CPEST: An expert
system for the management of pests and diseases in the Jamaican
coffee industry. Expert Systems with Applications Volume 32, Issue
1, January 2007, Pages 184-192
Abstract- Over the last few years, environmental concerns have led
to the emergence of the integrated management of pest and
pesticides (IMPP) as a new way to deal with pests and pesticides in
agriculture. Although the environmental and economic benefits of
IMPP are beyond doubt, its use has been somewhat limited. One
reason is the sheer amount of knowledge required of such things as
climate, topography, soil type of the farm, agronomic practices,
crop phenology, biology and damage potential of the pests and
options available for suppressing their population below the
economic injury levels. Unfortunately, such knowledge typically
resides within a few experts and is not easily available to
farmers. In order to make this knowledge more widely available, we
developed CPEST, an expert system for managing pest and diseases of
coffee in a developing country. The paper describes the
architecture and development of CPEST, gives examples of the
interface that a farmer would use to enter information and provides
an evaluation of the quality of the advice that CPEST
provides.
