TY - JOUR
T1 - CPEST: An expert system for the management of pests and diseases in the Jamaican coffee industry.
AU - Mansingh, Gunjan
AU - Reichgelt, Han
AU - Osei-Bryson, Kweku-Muata
AU - Reichgelt, Johannes (Han)
N1 - Mansingh, G., Reichgelt, H., & Osei-Bryson, K.-M. (2007). CPEST: An expert system for the management of pests and diseases in the Jamaican coffee industry. Expert Systems with Applications, 32(1), 184-192. doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2005.11.025
PY - 2007/1/1
Y1 - 2007/1/1
N2 - Over the last few years, environmental concerns have led to the emergence of the integrated management of pest and pesticides (IMPP) as a new way to deal with pests and pesticides in agriculture. Although the environmental and economic benefits of IMPP are beyond doubt, its use has been somewhat limited. One reason is the sheer amount of knowledge required of such things as climate, topography, soil type of the farm, agronomic practices, crop phenology, biology and damage potential of the pests and options available for suppressing their population below the economic injury levels. Unfortunately, such knowledge typically resides within a few experts and is not easily available to farmers. In order to make this knowledge more widely available, we developed CPEST, an expert system for managing pest and diseases of coffee in a developing country. The paper describes the architecture and development of CPEST, gives examples of the interface that a farmer would use to enter information and provides an evaluation of the quality of the advice that CPEST provides.
AB - Over the last few years, environmental concerns have led to the emergence of the integrated management of pest and pesticides (IMPP) as a new way to deal with pests and pesticides in agriculture. Although the environmental and economic benefits of IMPP are beyond doubt, its use has been somewhat limited. One reason is the sheer amount of knowledge required of such things as climate, topography, soil type of the farm, agronomic practices, crop phenology, biology and damage potential of the pests and options available for suppressing their population below the economic injury levels. Unfortunately, such knowledge typically resides within a few experts and is not easily available to farmers. In order to make this knowledge more widely available, we developed CPEST, an expert system for managing pest and diseases of coffee in a developing country. The paper describes the architecture and development of CPEST, gives examples of the interface that a farmer would use to enter information and provides an evaluation of the quality of the advice that CPEST provides.
KW - Expert systems
KW - Knowledge base systems
KW - Coffee pests
KW - Coffee diseases
KW - Integrated pest and pesticide management
KW - Developing countries
KW - Agriculture
KW - wxCLIPS
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M3 - Article
JO - Default journal
JF - Default journal
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