Kenyan Smallholder Farmers Use AI Apps to Detect Crop Disease and Cut Costs as AgriTech Spreads Across Africa
In Matungulu ward in Kenya’s Machakos County, farmer John Wambua photographs his maize leaves with a smartphone and receives a diagnosis within 20 seconds — a fall armyworm infestation, with recommended solutions to address it. “This app has greatly helped me and many farmers around this area,” Wambua said, adding that the tool diagnoses problems,…
