Artificial intelligence for sustainable farming with dual branch convolutional graph attention networks in rice leaf disease detection.

Summary: Rice is a very important food, but plant sicknesses like brown spot and leaf blight can ruin the crop. Farmers need a fast and easy way to spot these sicknesses to save their harvest. Scientists have built a smart computer program to help. First, the program cleans up pictures of sick rice leaves so the spots are easy to see. Then, it picks out the most important clues from the pictures. Finally, a special artificial intelligence tool looks at these clues to name the exact sickness. This new tool is over 98% accurate! This means farmers can treat their plants faster, save their crops, and grow more food for everyone.