cropbuddy

CropBuddy allows users to post alerts of any crop related disease occurring in a specific region using images and locations (longitude and latitude) and with the use of Google Satellite Maps, display the exact location and quadrant on a map where the disease has infected crops and is spreading. CropBuddy will then alert any registered farmer or user on CropBuddy who is located in the same region immediately with an SMS alert using Twilio SMS services on IBM's Bluemix cloud platform and allow them to get informed and learn how to stop the disease from spreading. CropBuddy allows users to post questions and get replies from other users who have experienced similar issues as well as allow them to view well researched articles posted on our application by other users to enable them to gather more knowledge about specific crops and diseases. CropBuddy users can also rate, comment or even request to edit any information posted on CropBuddy.

Our project aims to gather crowd source information from articles posted on CropBuddy by researchers, farmers, or students to enable others to acquire the same knowledge and learn how to prevent any crop related diseases from occurring as well as alert users via SMS of any current crop related diseases that are currently spreading in their region or other regions providing details such as images, locations using Google Maps, the specific date they occur, symptoms and how to prevent the disease from spreading.

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