ReamogetsweModise/Farm-Assistant-Ai

AI-powered weather advice and crop-health diagnosis for South Africa's small-scale farmers # 🌾 Farm Assistant **AI-powered weather advice and crop health checks for small-scale farmers.** Built for the TCS Sustainathon South Africa — *AI for Sustainable Food Security & Agriculture*. ## The Problem Small-scale farmers are often the backbone of local food systems, but they rarely have access to the tools that larger commercial farms take for granted — real-time weather forecasting tailored to their crop, or a quick way to check what's wrong with a struggling plant before it's too late. A single missed frost warning or a misdiagnosed disease can wipe out a season's harvest and income. Climate variability is making this worse: rainfall and temperature patterns are less predictable than ever, and the gap between "the data exists" and "the farmer can actually use it" is where a lot of preventable crop loss happens. ## The Solution Farm Assistant closes that gap with two AI-driven tools in one simple dashboard: 1. **Weather-Based Farming Advice** — pulls a real weather forecast for the farmer's location and asks an AI model to translate it into plain-language, crop-specific guidance: is there a frost risk tonight? Should fertilizing wait because of heavy rain? The farmer gets a risk level and concrete next steps, not just a temperature number. 2. **Crop Health Check** — the farmer either uploads a photo of an affected plant or picks from a list of common symptoms (yellowing leaves, spots, wilting, etc). The AI identifies the most likely disease, pest, or nutrient deficiency and suggests a treatment plan — like having a plant pathologist on call, for free. No specialized hardware, no expensive sensors — just a phone or laptop and an internet connection. ## Features - 📍 Location + crop selection (currently tuned for maize, tomatoes, cabbage, spinach) - 📊 24-hour weather forecast with an interactive temperature/rainfall chart - ⚠️ AI-generated risk level (low/medium/high) with specific recommended actions - 📷 Photo-based crop diagnosis using AI vision - …