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Goodleaf

Making farming knowledge accessible to the fingertips.

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Goodleaf

Making farming knowledge accessible to the fingertips.

The problem Goodleaf solves

According to FAO, more than 60% of the world's population depends on agriculture for survival. When we say it depends on agriculture we mean it depends on farmers, Farmers have been the backbone of our world. However after extensive research no any web portal was found that could link farmers around the world virtually the way we will do now, this was a significant problem as this would create boundaries and distance within farmers. To tackle this problem we came up with the idea of Goodleaf, we believe that it will be a global platform for farmers to come together and help each other. In the coming days: The site will also look forward to coordinating with various agricultural experts around the world, allowing free consultation services to farmers by experts, providing quick, efficient and effective services to the farmers. In many parts of the world, the farmers do not get effective crop production due to a lack of timely consultancy and growing process. This site can help combat this problem and ultimately improve agriculture globally.

The cherry on the top about our web app is that we can detect the diseases in the plant from the image of leaves and provides the name of the disease, its symptoms and remedy. It also aggregates other related posts in the forums belonging to the category of that specific plant and hence we increase the efficiency of our search system too.

Challenges we ran into

The greatest hurdle we were facing from the starting of the hackathon was time. But at last, we are really proud of what we came up with within these 48 hours.
Most of the bugs were regarding the deployment of the machine learning model in our forum using Django-
We solved the errors related to deployment using various resources like StackOverflow, Medium articles and towardsdatascience articles.
Some of the other bugs are these:

  1. Text editor Error - The CKEditor was embedded but wasn't shown.
  2. SMTP error during user authentication.
  3. Since we used the Porto template we faced a lot of problems regarding CSS overlapping.
  4. Prevailing Error - users weren't able to upload a photo

All the not prevailing error were solved with the help of websites like StackOverflow, Github, etc.

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