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India not innovating in the agricultural sector despite being the 2nd largest country in agricultural outputs with around 50% of the workforce engaged in the same

• Makes it easier for people to discover land fit for agriculture
• Allows farmers greater insight about their land
• Makes agriculture more inviting to investors and entrepreneurs

• Detects plants and/or weeds currently growing on the land by their leaves
• Based on plant taxonomy -
  • the possible soil types present in that land can be found
  • the possible animals dwelling in the area can be found
• A land is usually fit for agriculture purposes if it has fertile soil, less wild herbivores nearby, and less weeds.

• Webapp is made with Node.js, Express.js, React.js, and Material-UI.
• A generalised image detector, github.com/bikz05/bag-of-words, was forked which uses SIFT features and a SVM; used it for leaf classification.