Krishi Seva Bandhu: Mobile app for grading fruits and vegetables.

The backbone of India and even most parts of the world is agriculture. Maintaining perishable farm produce is important to not to waste it, which will impact the economy and food starvation. This paper presents a mobile application for farmers or farm produce owners to check the ripeness of fruits and vegetables, which will be useful to make decisions on selling and fixing the price based on grading. The application provides information on different ripening stages of the fruits and vegetables. It also presents the information on crop's requirements for growth in terms of soil, nutrients, weather conditions, season, etc., as a reference manual. In this work, firstly, identification of different stages of ripening of perishable farm produce in field/cold storage using image processing is performed. Secondly, a mobile application is developed to give real-time status and notification of farm produce. The application will be updated with the images taken by CCTV or mobile cameras at definite intervals and notify the product owner well in time before rotting of the produce. The assessment of fruit quality is important for the cultivator and the consumer. Maturity detection is very important for fruit/ vegetable warehouses. This fruit maturity mobile application is named "Krishi Seva Bandhu". The results show that the detection accuracy is 90% and the mean opinion score of farmers is 85%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]